At 04:22 PM 9/29/00 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -0000, 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 here.""";
>
>Of course, this doesn't help if you want to include three "s in a row
>in your string. :>
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 command procedures to batch, was 13 quotes in a row. Let's *not*
go there, thanks.
Dan
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