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On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:31:55 +0100
Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> > The following two expressions are equivalent:
> > $x::y::z
> >
> > $x'y'z
>
> Are we talking about just removing the parsing of "'" in package
> names in source code, or more generally the run-time processing of
> package names, e.g.
>
> sub a::b { print "a::b called\n" }
> my $name = "a'b";
> &{$name}();
I think the primary motivation was to catch it in string interpolation,
because of the common failures like
print "$name's score is 10\n";
Next up is general static source, and finally symbolic references.
Perhaps it could be attacked in several phases.
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