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On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:55:14 -0700, public@khwilliamson.com wrote: > I now offer a somewhat less kludgy idea. Change the code so that at the > point of raising the fatal message, it first looks at the current > context. If the left brace does not conflict with ideas we have as to > how we could use it not-literally, then don't die but instead raise the > warning. Much better. “Unescaped left brace may conflict with future pattern syntax” or suchlike. > > This is more general than just the autoconf pattern, and so there are > many more possible patterns that we would not die on, and this would not > restrict our ability to make the currently foreseeable changes to left > brace handling. So if there are other things besides autoconf we > haven't yet found, this would lessen the possibility that they would > cause a problem. > > Besides tests and pod, the only changes needed would be to insert these > tests just before we currently die. > -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130497Thread Previous | Thread Next