Re: are lexical subs supposed to override keywords?

On 14 November 2016 at 18:09, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 2016, at 1:29 AM, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
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>> It surprised me that perl keywords are overridden by lexical sub names.
>> Is this intentional? I couldn't find anything in perlsub about it.
>>
>>    my sub for { print "in lex sub (@_) \n" }
>>    for (1,2);
>>
>> outputs
>>
>>    in lex sub (1 2)
>
> That is wholly intentional.  It is similar to how a lexical @INC overrides the global @INC.  The core keywords could all be thought of as being in a namespace that gets searched by default before the current package.  Lexical symbols always take precedence over other namespaces.

Am I correct in thinking that implies we need less features to add new syntax?

Yves

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