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On Thu Jan 26 11:40:59 2012, ikegami@adaelis.com wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from ikegami@adaelis.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.0.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please describe your issue here]
>
> $ perl -we'sub foo(_@) {}'
> Illegal character after '_' in prototype for main::foo : _@ at -e line
> 1.
>
> $ perl -we'sub foo(_;@) {}'
>
> $ perl -we'sub foo(_%) {}'
> Illegal character after '_' in prototype for main::foo : _% at -e line
> 1.
>
> $ perl -we'sub foo(_;%) {}'
>
> $
>
> I don't see why "and 0 or more arguments" is treated differently than
> "and
> optionally 0 or more arguments".
If we allow _@, then it becomes more complicated to explain why _$ is
not allowed.
--
Father Chrysostomos
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