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2009/7/21 Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans@googlemail.com>: > 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? :) Id guess, totally off the top of my head, that it is probably already special cased in strings for some crazy reason or another. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next