Andrew Savige writes:
> I stumbled across a couple of interesting quote interpolation
> edge cases:
>
> Case 1
> ------
>
> # cat ttt.p6
> my $x = "{";
>
> # pugs ttt.p6
>
> unexpected end of input
> expecting "\"", "$!", "$/", "\\" or block
> NonTerm SourcePos "ttt.p6" 2 1
>
> Is this a bug?
No. Braces in strings are interpolator markers:
say "The output of foo is { foo() }";
> Case 2
> ------
>
> # cat q1.pl
> my $x = "$";
> print "x='$x'\n";
>
> # perl -w q1.pl
> Final $ should be \$ or $name at q1.pl line 1, within string
> syntax error at q1.pl line 1, near "= "$""
> Execution of q1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
>
> # pugs q1.pl
> x='$'
Hmm, given that we require no whitespace between the $ and the
identifier now, we might treat a $ not followed by \w or / as literal.
Luke
