On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:20:28PM -0500 James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 04:12  PM, Ken Tozier wrote:
> 
> >No luck. Dropping the \ in 'my $description = 
> >DescribeCritter(\%wombatStats);' didn't fix the problem.
> 
> You're right.  I was dumb.  Let me try again...
> 
> >my $description = DescribeCritter(\% wombatStats);
> 
> Drop the backslash and space here, as I said before.

You are right in that a space should probably not be there. However, it
is legal and exhibits Perl's very odd lexer-rules. You can write:

    $



    foo


    =

    "bar";

    print $foo;
    __END__
    bar

It's probably only useful for obfuscated Perl contests. And this is
totally mad:

    $


    # a comment between the sigil and the variable name!!

    foo = "bar";
    print $foo;
    __END__
    bar
    
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