John L. Allen wrote:
>
> I can't believe that special-casing the token -[rwxoRWXOezsfdlpSbctugkTBMAC]+
> is an acceptble solution. I mean think of all the existing perl keywords
> that that already matches: -pos, -cos, -lc, -uc, -fork, -use, -pop, -exp,
> -oct, -log, -ord + others!. A lot of these already have a legitimate
> not-filetest meaning, others not :-)
Yeah, not to mention the fact that many modules, notably CGI.pm,
are arranged to allow to use unquoted strings of the form -name:
print textfield( -name => 'description' );
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John Porter
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