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in reply to Re: Unexpected difference in whitespace parsing in subroutine calls.
in thread Unexpected difference in whitespace parsing in subroutine calls.

That's much more what I expect it to do. I was thinking about why this bothers me more than other perl quirks... If there's anything that I expect to disambiguate something, it's parentheses! But in this case adding parens makes it more ambiguous. :)