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A more helpful error message than just the generic "Two terms in a row"
could be thrown when the user writes e.g.
foo 42;
as if `foo` were a subroutine, but it's actually some other kind of
bareword such as:
* a constant - `constant foo = ...`
* a sigilless variable - `my \foo = ...`
* a typename - `class foo { ... }`
* a label - `foo: ...`
* a term - `sub term:<foo> { ... }`
The error message could be expanded like this:
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling [...]
Two terms in a row
at [...]
------> say foo⏏ 42;
Note: "foo" is not a subroutine, but a constant declared at [...].
Or in the special case that there actually *is* a subroutine with the
same name in any parent scope (including CORE::), but it's clobbered by
the other bareword:
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling [...]
Two terms in a row
at [...]
------> say foo⏏ 4;
Note: "foo" here does not refer to the subroutine declared
at [...], but to the constant declared at [...].
If the sub is declared inside the setting, the phrase "the subroutine
declared at [...]" could be replaced with "the built-in subroutine".
