Thanks David :) Tim.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:23:23PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: > Please disregard my previous. After reading Tim Bunce's earlier response > and thinking about this some > more, although backslash escaping can be tricky, that is how Perl does > these things, and Perl coders are > familiar with the nuances of when they must be doubled to get through > quoting. Doubling of syntax > characters is a database thing, but it would have to be revised for every > new escapable character. > Backslash escaping can be embraced once and will continue to work in > potentialfutures where other > significant characters (aside from colon and question mark) might need to > be escaped too. > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:27 AM, David Nicol <[1]davidni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I think the suggestion of making ::(\w+) become :$1 and exempting that > from placeholder recognition > seems like a complete winner and DBD maintainers could do that right > away, and by "do that" I mean > accepting, applying, and redistributing patches.. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:davidni...@gmail.com
