Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Single quotes cause symbol expansion. Inside double quotes, that
> normally doesn't happen, but you can force it to by doubling the first
> single quote:
I keep a list of bad language design ideas. I'm going to add this one. "Have
no quoting which doesn't include magic characters".
> In this case maybe
>
> '[.blib.lib.auto]', '$(PM_FILTER)', '$(PERM_DIR)'
>
> could become
>
> q{[.blib.lib.auto]}, q{$(PM_FILTER)}, q{$(PERM_DIR)}
That's about what I wound up doing, thanks for the info.
It would be nice if this could somehow be handled in MM_VMS->quote_literal(),
but I won't hold my breath.
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