On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:16:20AM -0700, John Williams wrote:
: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
: >
: > What's wrong with single quoted here-docs?
:
: What's wrong is that the documentation team is trying to allow \qq[]
: there too, contradicting their own assertion that backslashes are
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 09:46 AM, Luke Palmer wrote:
3) allowing \qq[] in single-quoted here-docs.
PRO: it's consistent with single-quotes
CON: it contradicts the assertion that backslashes are not special
in single quoted here-docs
The problem is, as Larry said, that heredocs ar
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:16:20 -0700 (MST)
> From: John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 2) requiring balanced delimiters to be escaped,
>PRO: it's consistent with non-balanced delimiter requirements
>CON: you already can; don't force it those who don't want it
I'll say no, agreeing with
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
>
> What's wrong with single quoted here-docs?
What's wrong is that the documentation team is trying to allow \qq[]
there too, contradicting their own assertion that backslashes are not
special in that context.
> Don't forget that the backslash is already
