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On Mar 24, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Brian Fraser wrote:
> This might be a bug:
>
> $ ./perl -M-warnings -Ilib -Mfeature=lexical_subs -E 'my sub else (&)
> { say "woah, what?"} if (1) {} else {}'
> woah, what?
>
> As there's no way of getting that override with normal subs. However,
> similar behavior is tested for in lexsub.t, so this looks intended?
Yes! That is as intended. There is no intrinsic reason why ‘if’ should not be a function if ‘system’ is. After all, they are both special keywords with special syntax. Conceptually, ‘if’ is in the CORE:: namespace. Since lexical names take precedence over those residing in symbol tables, the lexical ‘if’ takes precedence here. Using one of Zefram’s magic modules, you could even attach a parser to your lexical ‘if’ to make it parse just like the built-in ‘if’, but perhaps with more features.
>
> Since lexical subs are experimental I don't think is needs to be
> addressed right away, but it certainly looks icky.
Not icky at all. :-)
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