Re: Digesting problem

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:43:00AM -0600, Howard R. Hamilton wrote:
[...]
> I have only dabbled in Perl a bit, but when I implemented the change suggested
> below, emacs' syntax highlighting indicated an unclosed single apostrophe in
> the previous function that might also be a problem.  The offending line looks
> like this:
> 
>             &config'writeconfig($listdir, $opt_l);

This is obsolete perl syntax.  More modern perl would write that line as:

    config::writeconfig($listdir,$opt_l);

However, it still works with the apostrophe.

> Is that correct syntax for Perl, or should I close that single apostrophe at
> the end of that line.  It is the last line in that function.

Don't touch it :-)

Kent