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Re: [perl #93640] Allow comments in qw()

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From:
Zefram
Date:
July 1, 2011 03:28
Subject:
Re: [perl #93640] Allow comments in qw()
Message ID:
20110701102821.GA2840@lake.fysh.org
Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
>We've already suffered enough from the problems of qr/.../'s trailing
>modifier syntax:

Indeed.  But because qw can already take almost any character as a
delimiter, we can't really add a modifier at the beginning either.
It'll have to be a new operator, qwx.  Which anyone interested can
prototype in a CPAN module for Perl 5.11.2+.

-zefram
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