Re: Bug#386912: errors in the Perl parser of xgettext: invalid variable interpolation at "$"

[John Cowan]

Bruno Haible scripsit:

>      - Other identifiers, if immediately followed by an opening
>      parenthesis,

Any identifier immediately followed by an open paren takes the arguments
within the parens.  In Perl-speak, "if it looks like a function call,
it is a function call."  So if you don't want to worry about which
built-ins take one argument and which take as many as possible, always
parenthesize.

>          foo bar (x), y  ==>  foo (bar (x), y)
>          foo bar (x, y), z  ==>  foo (bar (x, y), z)
>      - Other identifiers, if not immediately followed by an opening

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