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Id: 56626
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: Perl-Critic

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Requestors: JARIAALTO [...] cpan.org
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Subject: Magic punctuation variable (false positive)
Magic punctuation variable used at line 4, column 33. See page 79 of PBP. 1 #!/usr/bin/perl 2 use strict; 3 4 /^END.*?{(?<c>.*)}/sm and not $+{c} =~ /print_depends/: See New REGEXP features in Perl 5.10. The $+{c} is valid syntax.
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #56626] Magic punctuation variable (false positive)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:09:02 -0500
To: bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Elliot Shank <perl [...] galumph.com>
On 4/15/10 6:13 AM, Jari Aalto via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> See New REGEXP features in Perl 5.10. The $+{c} is valid syntax.
Perl::Critic does not check whether or not syntax is correct; perl handles that well enough by itself. If you wish to comply with this policy use %LAST_PAREN_MATCH instead of %+.