[perl #78348] => search too weak

On Tue Oct 12 11:58:29 2010, zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from zefram@fysh.org,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.

> 
> The determination of whether a "{" is the start of a block or a hash
> constructor depends in part on looking for "=>" following an initial
> bareword.  This search gives up at end of line:
> 
> $ perl -lwe '{ foo => 1 }->${\sub{ print @_ }}'
> HASH(0x1e1edf0)

> $ perl -lwe '{ foo '$'\n'' => 1 }->${\sub{ print @_ }}'
> syntax error at -e line 2, near "}->"
> Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

My subjective reaction to that last line of code is:  "Whoever writes
code that ugly gets what he deserves."

> 
> It should really be willing to add the next line to the buffer, and do
>    a
> full skipspace() job.  

Less subjectively, I feel we should ask:  Do we really need this
functionality?

> However, because it's looking ahead of the
>    current
> lexing point, there's some trickiness about restoring lexing state
>    back
> to the "{".
> 

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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