On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
: As well, isn't there a way to escape a character that would otherwise
: be interpolated? If the intent were as you suppose, the original
: could be rewritten as:
:
: $ perl6 -e 'my $foo = "foo";say "\{" ~ $foo ~ "}"'
Sure, though in any case I'd probably prefer:
$ perl6 -e 'my $foo = "foo"; say Qs/{$foo}/'
: (Or would you need to escape the closing curly brace as well as the
: opening one?)
Not unless something outside of it all was attempting to count braces.
But the P6 parser has sworn off all such activities for P6-derived
code. Parsing something first as a string and then again as some
other language is generally looked upon as a Bad Plan these days.
Which is, of course, why "{" is a problem now. Perhaps use of nested
double quotes deserves a warning.
Larry
