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Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.10.1-8
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlsub.1.gz
Tags: upstream
Dear Perl guys: On the perlsub man page, please mention near:
Subroutines whose names are in all upper case are reserved to the
Perl core, as are modules whose names are in all lower case.
that sub m {...}
won't work too.
SM> Actually, the problem is not really that it's only one letter, but that
SM> it's the "keyword" m, used for matching (as in "m/regexp/"). Of course
SM> the same can happen with other keywords like "s", "tr", "y", "q", "qx",
SM> and various others.
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