On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Luke Palmer wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Debbie Pickett asked:
> > > > (Offtopic: can I say:
> > > >   $c = -> $xyz { mumble }
> > >
> > > Yes. Though you need a semicolon at the end unless its the last
> > > statement in a block.
> >
> > Um... when did that rule come in? I thought a statement ending closing
> > brace merely had to match C<< rx/ \} [ ; | \s* \n] / >>.
>
> Nope. It's C< rx/^^ \s* \} \s* $$/ > (or the usual C< }; >)

I hope this is wrong, because if not, it breaks this:

    if 1 { do something }
    foo $x;

in weird ways.  Namely, it gets parsed as:

    if(1, sub { do something }, foo($x));

which comes out as "wrong number of arguments to `if'", which is just
strange.

/s

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