Peter Haworth wrote:
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:05:05 -0500, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
A string inside a \qq[] construct acts exactly as if it were an
interpolated string. Note that any end-brackets, "]", must be escaped
within the the \qq[] construct so that the parser can read it correctly.
Note that an end-bracket, ], must be escaped within the \qq[] construct.
This allows the parser to correctly parse the construct.
Don't embedded qq[] strings obey the normal qq[] rules? That is, will
all brackets need escaping, or just unbalanced brackets? I'd hope for
the latter.
With all of the new crazy quoting shenanagains, I'm not sure that the
"balenced brackets are fine" rule will still be possible; and thus end
delimeters will always need to be escaped. For instance, imagine
what a nightmare this would be to parse:
$var = qq[blah [\q[blah [\qq[%hash{qq[[hi]]}]]]] blah];
Sure, anyone who writes something like this deserves to be shot;
however, if the "balanced brackets are ok" rule still stands, the
above code would be legal. (And I really, really, really don't
want the above code to be legal ;)
