On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:56:11AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>  On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:03:57AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>  : Is '::' acting as a sigil here?  
>  
>  Yes.
>  
>  :         rule variable { <sigil> <name> [ \( <siglet> \) ]? }
>  :         rule sigil { <[$@%&]> <[*.:?^=]>? }   
>  
>      rule sigil { [ <[$@%&]> | <'::'> ] <[*.:?^=]>? }   
>  
>  which would, I suppose, have to parse :::foo as a private :foo package name.

Works for me (for now), thanks!  

Pm