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Larry Wall wrote: > Well, the other guys are suggesting bow tie operators, so maybe we should keep > «foo bar baz» with French quotes, and go with @a »*« @b for vector multiply. I wouldn't have a problem with that. > That suggests to me that the circumlocution could be >>*<<. A five character multiple symbol??? I guess that's the penalty for not upgrading to something that can handle unicode. > Actually, we could use <<foo bar baz>> for qw too if here-docs always > have to be <<' or <<". Yes. I thought we'd pretty much decided that anyway, hadn't we? Hmmm...I wonder if one could then write: $str = <<<<EOT>>; to make the heredoc terminator *really* stand out ;-) > Or we could change here docs to vv"TAG" > or some such that points downwards to where the text actually is. Urk. DamianThread Previous | Thread Next