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 -- Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ...It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.Thread Previous | Thread Next