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* Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> [2014-07-29T18:34:27]
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 05:54:24PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> >
> > I am gratified to see that <<X>> fails for any X, as you've only made the
> > literal construct <<>> iterate. Awesome. I think we're going to want a
> > better error message, if possible, though, than:
> >
> > ~/code/perl5$ ./perl -e 'while (<<ARGV>>) { print }' 'ls |'
> > Can't find string terminator "ARGV" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
>
> That may be hard, as this:
>
> while (<<ARGV>>3) {print}
> ARGV
>
> is legal syntax.
Yeah, the error that I got made it clear that it would be tricky. If we can't,
we can't, but if we can, we should. (For non-absurd-effort levels of "can".)
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rjbs
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