| Subject: | Form feed appears to be white space |
PPI sometimes blows up when encountering a form feed ("\f") used as
white space in Perl. Denoting the form feed by "^L", this occurs in
^L;
but not in
# comment
^L
The difference appears to be whether the parse goes through
PPI::Token::Whitespace::__TOKENIZER__on_char().
This was brought to my attention by Perl::Critic ticket
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67491
I intend to commit a proposed patch, but want to commit the ticket first
so I can refer to it in the commit message.
I offer this a bit diffidently, since I have yet to find in the Perl
documentation exactly what characters are legal as white space in Perl
code. But I offer it anyway on the observation that a random sample of
Perls from 5.6.2 to 5.12.3 appear to accept form feeds as white space.