Re^3: Perl 5.12.0 has been released!

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Re^4: Perl 5.12.0 has been released! by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2010 at 15:42 UTC
They might also be triggered by the `1 ... 10`. Not that I remember ever using the 3 dot form. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. RIP an inspiration; A true Folk's Guy	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Perl 5.12.0 has been released! by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2010 at 17:42 UTC
They might also be triggered by the `1 ... 10`. Not at all; ~~the~~ anything resembling a real parser can distinguish between the infix and standalone forms of the operator. Update: I missed the topic of parsers which are not Perl 5 itself.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Perl 5.12.0 has been released! by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2010 at 18:38 UTC
The topic was lexing editors. Mine uses PPI, so it could distinguish between the two forms of `...`, but simpler lexers might have problems.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Perl 5.12.0 has been released! by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2010 at 17:58 UTC
but lexing editors could detect it and create a TODO task for it. I was referring to lexing editors...	[reply]


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