in reply to Re^2: Indirect Object Syntax
in thread Indirect Object Syntax
> Anyway, Perl should check for the missing comma. I suppose this happens too late for the parser.
IIRC, the parser can only check the following token when deciding whether the { starts a block or an anonymous hash. That's also why the ; helps.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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