At 05:17 PM 9/30/00 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > $foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
> >
> > Argh! *NO*! That way lies madness, or at least DCL's quoting mania. My
> > record, in a command proced
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > $foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
>
> Argh! *NO*! That way lies madness, or at least DCL's quoting mania. My
> record, in a command procedure that wrote other command procedures that
> submi
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:14:26PM -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > Although consensus so far is against the change, views were from B
> > perl users [who do you expect as the majority on perl6 lists? :-)]. The
> > change would
At 04:22 PM 9/29/00 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
>
>I rather like the Python triple-quote mechanism used for this
>purpose:
>
> $foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meani
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
I rather like the Python triple-quote mechanism used for this
purpose:
$foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
Of course, this doesn't help if you wa
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote :
|| =head1 TITLE
||
|| Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
||
|| =head1 VERSION
||
|| Maintainer: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|| Date: 28 Sep 2000
|| Last Updated: 29 Sep 2000
|| Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|| Number: 328
|| Version: 2
||
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:20:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> Although consensus so far is against the change, views were from B
> perl users [who do you expect as the majority on perl6 lists? :-)]. The
> change would penalise existing perl users, but benefit new perl users (and
> presuma
> =head1 ABSTRACT
>
> Remove all interpolation within single quotes and the C operator, to
> make single quotes 100% shell-like. C<\> rather than C<\\> gives a single
> backslash; use double quotes or C if you need a single quote in your
> string.
Yes. If people really need single quotes inside
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=head1 TITLE
Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000
Last Updated: 29 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 328
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