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>Can you give an example of such an empty block not being a syntax
>error?
Hmm, you are right, C<{} my $x;> is also an error.
In that case this looks like a bug where the case of an empty block is not handled correctly.
Normally in the Perl grammar a block can contain zero or more statements.
It is quite legitimate to have C<if (foo) {}> or C<sub bar {}>. Yet somehow when a block
appears by itself it has the restriction that it must be non-empty.
I think this is a bit fishy; in other C-like languages an empty block can appear in any
place where a nonempty one can. Could that become true for Perl too?
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Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
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