On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:15:33PM -0500, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> So this is a documented "feature".
> 
> I was fooled by believing the general principle that special
> characters are special unless escaped with a backslash.
> I would have greatly preferred consistency in this.
> 
> Are there other known (and perhaps even documented) violations
> of that principle?  I scanned the 5.8 perltrap for "curly"
> and this was not listed.  Who should I notify to request its inclusion?
> 
> Steve

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