Make &foo respect our sub

[perl5.git] / toke.c

diff --git a/toke.c b/toke.c
index 568e618..1a82259 100644 (file)
--- a/toke.c
+++ b/toke.c
@@ -5987,10 +5987,12 @@ Perl_yylex(pTHX)
            BAop(OP_BIT_AND);
        }
 
-       s = scan_ident(s - 1, PL_bufend, PL_tokenbuf, sizeof PL_tokenbuf, TRUE);
-       if (*PL_tokenbuf) {
+       PL_tokenbuf[0] = '&';
+       s = scan_ident(s - 1, PL_bufend, PL_tokenbuf + 1,
+                      sizeof PL_tokenbuf - 1, TRUE);
+       if (PL_tokenbuf[1]) {
            PL_expect = XOPERATOR;
-           force_ident(PL_tokenbuf, '&');
+           PL_pending_ident = '&';
        }
        else
            PREREF('&');