On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
$foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
Argh! *NO*! That way lies madness, or at least DCL's quoting mania. My
record, in a command procedure that wrote other command procedures that
submitted
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=head1 TITLE
Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Sep 2000
Last Updated: 29 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 328
=head1 ABSTRACT
Remove all interpolation within single quotes and the Cq() operator, to
make single quotes 100% shell-like. C\ rather than C\\ gives a single
backslash; use double quotes or Cq() if you need a single quote in your
string.
Yes. If people really need single quotes inside
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Although consensus so far is against the change, views were from Bexisting
perl users [who do you expect as the majority on perl6 lists? :-)]. The
change would penalise existing perl users, but benefit new perl users (and
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote :
|| =head1 TITLE
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|| Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
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|| =head1 VERSION
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|| Maintainer: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|| Date: 28 Sep 2000
|| Last Updated: 29 Sep 2000
|| Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|| Number: 328
|| Version: 2
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At 04:22 PM 9/29/00 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
I rather like the Python triple-quote mechanism used for this
purpose:
$foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in
