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>> > 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".)
somewhere in this archive is a patch I submitted once to allow
whitespace between a
left-shift that begins an expression and a bareword that isn't an
infix operator (to allow
using the deprecated empty terminator, which is what that always
confusingly misparses as,
to precede C<le> for instance) and that might be a good starting place
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