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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
November 24, 2015 04:52
Subject:
Re: [perl #126715] Deprecate barewords?
Message ID:
20151124045242.GA23658@plasmasturm.org
* Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> [2015-11-23 22:45]:
> It's referring to "STDERR", but STDERR is not a bareword there. "A
> word that has no other interpretation in the grammar will be treated
> as if it were a quoted string. These are known as 'barewords'." Bad
> doc.

There is exactly one place in the docs which says that, and literally
every other mention of “bareword” in the docs contradicts it – including
itself.

Bad doc, indeed.

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