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* Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> [2011-06-30T13:25:18]
>
> On Mon 27.Jun'11 at 12:38:28 -0700, Eric Brine wrote:
>
> > Patch 3:
> >
> > Add feature qw_comments, which allows comments to be used in the qw()
> > operator.
>
> I'm not in favor of this one. It breaks my assumptions about
> what qw means. (Those being "This text will be split on whitespace
> boundaries but otherwise won't be touched")
I am not in favor of this change, but I will play devil's advocate very very
briefly:
Aren't comments sometimes just line-ending whitespace?
My initial reply was going to be: I don't like making qw special, why not
comments in multiline qq strings? But then the problem is that you don't know
what to do here:
my $x = qq{
Foo
# bar
Baz
};
Are the two whitespace lines before # in the string itself? This isn't a
problem in qw, where the whitespace is already gone. Then again, it isn't in
qx, either...
Yup. Still not in favor of this change, either.
--
rjbs
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