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

In message <200004142343.QAA05204@maul.ActiveState.com>
          Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:11:36 BST, "M.J.T. Guy" wrote:
> >Graham Barr <gbarr@dhcp69.uk.valueclick.com> wrote
> >> $ 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.

Patch attached.

Tom

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• [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