Heh. I'd rather want text editors to use syntax highlighting on comments as
well, but use a different background color. Then I would know it's a comment
but it would also make any embedded code in the comment actually readable.
bearophile < bearophileh...@lycos.com> Wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic:
>
> > I'm sorry, but what does q{..} mean?
>
> q{} is just a different syntax to write "" or ``
>
> It's a controversial feature. q{} isn't recognized by editors as a string, so
> they colour the syntax it contains normally as code, and not as a string. So
> it's a bit useful if you want to give a string to a higher order function
> like map, instead of a delegate, and you want to keep the visual illusion of
> a delegate:
>
> map!q{a * a}([1, 2, 3])
>
> The problem comes straight from its purpose: is that it doesn't look like a
> string, so its true nature is a bit hidden; and this may cause some troubles.
>
> Another possible problem was discussed when the q{} syntax was introduced.
> It's not a clean syntax, it's a hack from the point of view of parsing/lexing
> too.
>
> It's handy, but it may cause troubles too. I am getting used to it, but it's
> a untidy hack and it will keep being nothing more than a hack. And sometimes
> hacks later come back and bite your bum.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
