On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:00:04PM -0400, Michael Mathews wrote:
> Ted Ashton wrote:
> > The qc()
> > proposal fits in well with the Perl "look-and-feel" and seems pretty
> > comfortable to me. If there are concerns about obfuscatory potential, a
> > use strict 'comments' could require that the qc( opening start in column
> one.
> > Further, if qc were flexible about delimiters, those who prefer /* */
> could
> > write
> >
> > qc/* Here is a comment */;
>
>
> I think this may be the closest thing to being What Will Make Everyone
> Happy, but I'm afraid it fails in two very major ways:
> 1) Perl can't currently handle quote delimiters of arbitrary length. In
> other words the asterisks would currently be treated as part of the quote,
> not part of the delimiter. Any idea how to overcome this?
Well hey I am sure perl6 will allow scripts in utf8, so there are plenty
of unused characters yet.
Graham.
