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Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"

From:
sthoenna
Date:
February 10, 2000 23:44
Subject:
Re: use octets; and "escaping the piranha's"
Message ID:
Kk7o4gzkg++e092yn@efn.org
In article <200002110151.RAA08189@kiev.wall.org>,
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote:
>
>I could have sworn we deprecated the ' delimiter, but maybe only in the
>docs.  It would appear that -w doesn't elicit a warning.  I suspect it
>oughta, these days.  Cute package names like Santa's::Helpers
>notwithstanding.

' seems to work just fine :(.

Even if it can't be deprecated in general, I'd like to see this
deprecated:

perl -we "print that's => ' all folks'"
that::s all folks

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