Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:11:36 BST, "M.J.T. Guy" wrote:
>Graham Barr <gbarr@dhcp69.uk.valueclick.com> wrote
>> During the change to make qw() compile time the interpretation of
>> the contents seems to have changed too.
>> 
>$ perl5.00503 -le 'print qw{ (?:\\\\.|[^\\\\()]+)* }'
>> (?:\\.|[^\\()]+)*
>> 
>> $ perl5.6.0  -le 'print qw{ (?:\\\\.|[^\\\\()]+)* }'
>> (?:\\\\.|[^\\\\()]+)*  
>
>Clearly a bug, since both 5.005_03 and 5.6.0, in their own ways, say that
>the argument to qw{} is subject to q{} quoting:

Agreed.  I think the KEY_qw processing in toke.c is missing the moral
equivalent of calling tokeq(PL_lex_stuff).  Patch welcome.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

• [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previousversions by Graham Barr
• Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions by Tom Hughes
• Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previousversions by Jeff Pinyan
• Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions by Graham Barr