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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 05:05:16PM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 04:02:42PM -0600, Brad Appleton wrote:
> > > How can C<::> be better than C<<>>?
> >
> > I certainly like the looks of C<<>> more than C<::>, but the latter can
> > seem "better" in that C<< 0> is no longer ambiguous or an issue as it
> > is with C<< ... >>. Is there something similar that may commonly occur
> > like C<: 0> or C<: xxx>???
>
> Of course. Say, C<:> ;-). Or C<:tag_name>.
>
Don't forget that with either proposal the delimiter must be followed by
whitespace (other than a newline). So, C<:> and C<:tag_name> would still
be legal.
However, I'm curious about why a newline isn't allowed as the whitespace
following C<<. Does that mean that this would be legal:
C<<
if ($x < $y) {
print "Hello!\n";
}
>>
But this wouldn't:
C<<
if ($x <$y) {
print "Hello!\n";
}
>>
?
Ronald
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