On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:42:07PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > Why isn't
> >
> > if %foo {"key"} {print "Hello 1"}
> >
> > equivalent with the perl5 syntax:
> >
> > if (%foo) {"key"} {print "Hello 1"}
> >
> > Which keyword is it expecting?
>
> Keyword /els(e|if)/, or end of line, or semicolon. Sorry badly phrased
> on my part. The closing brace of {"key"} only ends the statement if it
> is followed by /\s*$/, or a semicolon.
You've got to be kidding. That makes the whitespace rules even more
insane; your program can behave quite differently wether there's a space,
a newline, or nothing between two tokens. Wonderful! People who tend
to use -e all the time (like me) will love it. (Not!) Pasting code into
IRC will be so much more fun.
I'll treasure my perl5 sources.
Abigail
