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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
August 24, 2010 14:18
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Damian will probably hate me
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AANLkTi=Mxw8sPNpNO0jHgewAZSHvPreLNyXAqmigqiB6@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:

> Anywhere that the grammar calls
> for a paren outside an expression, it will also accept a qw token.
> When it does this, it generates the phantom parens as before, and emits
> a deprecation warning.  So the phantom parens are left in exactly the
> partially-functional state they were in before, except for now generating
> warnings.  We get to remove the hack in 5.15, leaving completely clean
> grammar for qw.
>

What does that mean for C<< qw( a ) x 3 >>?

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