Re: Why doesn't Perl complain about this bareword?

On May 7, 1:45 pm, "A. Sinan Unur" <1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Note the following cases:

C:\t> perl -w -Mstrict -e "print Does,Not,Exist, qq{\n}"
No comma allowed after filehandle at -e line 1.

In this case, Does has a valid interpretation as a
bareword filehandle. Thus, strict does not kick in.

But why is the first argument being taken here for a filehandle, in
spite of the comma, and not considered as namespace, as in your other
example?

....

Again, let's go back to:

C:\t> perl -w -Mstrict -e "print Does::Not::Exist, qq{\n}"
Does::Not::Exist

The comma establishes that Does::Not::Exist is not referring to
filehandle Exist in the package Does::Not.


It seems like only Strings containing :: (or ' ) qualify as possible
package names.

Steffen

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