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There are several techniques that are used to extend Perl's syntax.

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Pluggable keywords

This was added in Perl v5.11.2.

See perlapi#PL_keyword_plugin and perlapi#wrap_keyword_plugin.

One module that a lot of other modules depend on for doing this is Keyword::Simple.

parse_*() functions

This was added in Perl v5.13.7 and v5.13.8.

(more info in 'perlapi')

note to self: you can find these calls in a module's source by doing this: pcre2grep -I -rs '\bparse_(?:stmtseq|fullstmt|barestmt|block|label|(?:full|list|term|arith)expr)\b' .