On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:56:11AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > 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.
Works for me (for now), thanks! Pm