Re: colon (:) placeholders and array slices

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 12:53:39PM -0400, Graham Ollis wrote:
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> This is related to rt#95173, a bug I opened last week, which can be seen here:
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> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=95173
> 
> I would like to gauge how other interested parties might feel about this.

I've replied on the ticket saying:

Parsing the statement is a slippery slope I'd be very cautious of stepping onto.

Requiring a space before a colon is a non-starter, I think.

Only recognizing colons if they are followed immediately by letters ([a-zA-Z])
is about as far as I'd be comfortable going. (Note that I've phrased it
that way on purpose. Syntax like [-2:-1] shouldn't be treated as a placeholder.)

Tim.