[Parseperl-discuss] Hashref vs block

[Chris D. <ch...@cl...>]

I discovered a problem with anonymous hashref parsing (a pair of  
failing tests added to SVN as rev 1103).  The attached fix passes all  
PPI and Perl::Critic tests, but breaks the following common idiom:

    my %foo = map({$_ => 1} @foo);

I think the lexer needs a lookahead to detect the lack of a following  
comma to distinguish the following cases:
   map({$_ => 1} @foo
   foo({$_ => 1}, @foo);

That seems like a non-trivial change to the Lexer code, so I'm going  
to set it aside for now.

Chris

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