Re: [Parseperl-discuss] Hashref vs block

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

On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Chris Dolan wrote:

> 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

I just added a failing test for the above cases.  I'm finding the  
Lexer.pm code to be impenetrable, so I'm going to continue to set  
this issue aside.

Chris

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