Juerd writes: > As we now know, in many situations, << and « mean the same thing. In > exactly those situations, the same is true for >> and ». However, > sometimes, « cannot be used where << can. Here-docs are an example.
Why can't « be used for here-docs? I thought Larry had said they were completely interchangeable. > But as « foo bar » and << foo bar >> are the same thing, I wonder what > qw<< foo bar >> means. Is that qw/< foo bar >/ or is that qw/foo bar/? I'd hope it's the former -- that is, that « can be substituted for << anywhere that << is a single operator, not just somewhere that those two characters happen to be adjacent to each other in the source, and » likewise. Otherwise you could have ridiculous things like: m>foo>>0 which parses as: m/foo/ > 0 being written as: m>foo»0 And that's blatantly of no use to anybody. Smylers
