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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:55 PM, James Laver <james.laver@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Paul Fenwick<pjf@perltraining.com.au> > wrote: > > > > Personally, I've had ' cause me many more headaches (always inside > strings) > > than I've found legitimate uses (always outside of strings, and usually > in > > Klingon[1]). > > I've had problems with ' in strings as well, but that's the only > circumstance I've ever seen anyone have with it. Does anyone have any > other examples? > > I would be in favour of ditching it in strings, but not elsewhere > unless it's really quite awkward maintaining it. No, we want less complexity in the parser, and fewer special cases that we'll need to replicate eventually, remember? :) BenThread Previous | Thread Next