Re: Ignoring parameters

[Larry Wall]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:03:57AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: Is '::' acting as a sigil here?  

Yes.

:         rule variable { <sigil> <name> [ \( <siglet> \) ]? }
:         rule sigil { <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&]> <[*.:?^=]>? }   

    rule sigil { [ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&]> | <'::'> ] <[*.:?^=]>? }   

which would, I suppose, have to parse :::foo as a private :foo package name.

Larry