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Re: [perl #121501] Empty code block {} causes syntax error(misparsed as anonymous hash constructor?) before 'sub'

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Dave Mitchell
Date:
March 25, 2014 14:44
Subject:
Re: [perl #121501] Empty code block {} causes syntax error(misparsed as anonymous hash constructor?) before 'sub'
Message ID:
20140325144225.GS1615@iabyn.com
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 04:23:54AM -0700, Ed Avis wrote:
> Please allow an empty BLOCK to occur before a subroutine
> definition, just as an empty BLOCK can occur elsewhere in a program.

Can you give an example of such an empty block not being a syntax
error?

All these are syntax errors:

    {
    }
    my $x;


    {
    }
    $x = 1;


    {
    }
    foo();


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