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| author | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2012-05-14 09:01:06 -0400 |
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| committer | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2012-05-29 21:51:41 -0400 |
| commit | 34a2706e505e63c675528e3a99d1c07496c48606 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b873702d0698e7884218fe8dcc61f7490ffa0fd | |
| parent | fb55feefe971ae1552e21360ba05c793b60fefd6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-34a2706e505e63c675528e3a99d1c07496c48606.tar.gz | |
clarify that it must be a simple identifier in {}
suggestion from Aristotle Pagaltzis in
https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=112914
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldata.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod index 8611d3d2b2..c89b6754be 100644 --- a/pod/perldata.pod +++ b/pod/perldata.pod @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ C<$who::0>, and a C<$who's> variable. The last two would be the $0 and the $s variables in the (presumably) non-existent package C<who>. -In fact, an identifier within such curlies is forced to be a string, -as is any simple identifier within a hash subscript. Neither need +In fact, a simple identifier within such curlies is forced to be +a string, and likewise within a hash subscript. Neither need quoting. Our earlier example, C<$days{'Feb'}> can be written as C<$days{Feb}> and the quotes will be assumed automatically. But anything more complicated in the subscript will be interpreted as an |