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On Mon Jul 16 03:04:46 2012, nicholas wrote: > Yes, if it can't ever work, why is it even accepted? > > Strikes me that it's buggy to accept a terminator which contains a newline > (or anything else which the parser *cannot* later deal with), and that > really the only sane thing to do is to report it as an error early. > > I also *think* that changing this can't actually change the behaviour of > any existing program, because (if I understand it correctly), all currently > fail to parse, due to the "missing" heredoc terminator. > > All it does is change the error reported, to one that is meaningful. It works in string eval. See also #78348 and #114040. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=114102Thread Next