"foo bar"->()

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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15974

diff --git a/ext/B/B/Deparse.pm b/ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
index b10c1fb..786c7a4 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
+++ b/ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
@@ -2951,6 +2951,14 @@ sub pp_entersub {
        # it back.
        $kid =~ s/^CORE::GLOBAL:://;
 
+        # If the sub name is not a valid identifier, then somebody
+        # (probably Abigail) must have written "foo"->(...). Reproduce
+        # this.
+        if ($kid !~ /^([a-zA-Z_]|::)([a-zA-Z_0-9]|::)*$/) {
+            $kid = single_delim("qq", '"', uninterp(escape_str(unback($kid))));
+            $kid .= "->";
+        }
+
         if (!$declared) {
            return "$kid(" . $args . ")";
        } elsif (defined $proto and $proto eq "") {