Re: [Fun With Perl] What does this do?

["Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>]

>>From: "Juanma Barranquero" <barranquero@laley-actualidad.es>
>> 
>> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:15:13 -0400, "Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>It should be a syntax error in that the last \E belongs to
>>>the LAST \U
>>
>> That still doesn't explain why it fails just by adding a \l that
>> shouldn't affect \U or \L (but it does, by way of the reordering that
>> MJD has brought to our attention).
>>
>>>The FIRST \L lost it's macro closure \E in the reordering...
>>
>> The perlop manpage says:
>>
>>  \L  Lowercase till \E
>>  \U  Uppercase till \E
>>  \E  End case modification
>>
>> Nowhere I read that they should be properly nested and that is not
>> correct to "open" several levels of \L and \U and close them all with
>> a single \E. In fact,

In toke.c (perl5.005.52) states on
line 1715 of 6322 (27%), character 44335 of 154152 (28%)

That -

tmp = *s, *s = s[2], s[2] = tmp;        /* misordered... */

And the \bigLettered commands are evaluated BEFORE
the \littleLettered commands...

HTH,
-Sneex-  :]
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