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Claes Jakobsson wrote: > Hi, > > the attached patches > > 1) Adds support + tests for 0o and 0O octal string constants > 2) Adds 0o and 0O to grok_oct hence making oct() also understand the above + tests > 3) removes the task from perltodo > > /Claes Before the patches: $ ./miniperl -e '0or foo()' Undefined subroutine &main::foo called at -e line 1. After the patches: $ ./miniperl -e '0or foo()' Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "0or" (Missing operator before r?) syntax error at -e line 1, near "0or foo" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. Is there any way to resolve this in favour of backward compatibility? (Honestly, I don’t see what benefit this feature provides, even though it’s listed in perltodo.)Thread Previous | Thread Next