Perl Syntax

[Kevin C. Krinke]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:03 -0400, Rick Delaney wrote:
<snipped for brevity>
> I only pointed it out because the only barewords in the discussion were
> hash keys.  The OP may already have "use strict" in the program and
> wonder what all the fuss is about.

The strict pragma condones bareword hash keys as well as bareword
function names but that's the extent of what I know of the strict pragma
and it's bareword policy.

All of the following work with strict:

  $hash{KEY}
  $hash{'KEY'}
  $hash{"KEY"}
  %hash = ( KEY => "value" );
  some_function( ARG => "arg" );
  sub SIMPLE_PI => 4.14;
  my $pi = SIMPLE_PI;

Note that these are just examples and won't work as is...

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