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Clarify :16sweet a bit
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perlpilot committed Jun 5, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -3775,11 +3775,12 @@ C<:%a>) never take an argument and don't care what the next character
is. They are considered complete. These forms require an identifier
to serve as the key.

For identifiers that take a numeric argument, it is allowed to
abbreviate, for example, C<:sweet(16)> to C<:16sweet>. (This is
For identifiers that take a non-negative integer argument, it is allowed
to abbreviate, for example, C<:sweet(16)> to C<:16sweet>. (This is
distinguishable from the :16<deadbeef> form, which never has an
alphabetic character following the number.) Only literal decimal
numbers may be swapped this way. Please note that this abbreviation allows:
alphabetic character following the number.) Only literal non-negative
integers numbers may be swapped this way. Please note that this
abbreviation allows:

s:2nd/foo/bar/ # or 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.

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