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On Sun Sep 18 15:37:49 2011, tom christiansen wrote: > >--0015173fed80493f3604ad3e7b8a > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > >On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote: > > >> 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 consider comments part of whitespace (that which separates token but has > >no other effect on the code). > > >perlsyn says comments can appear anywhere except in strings and regular > >expressions, qw() being neither. > > > No. qw() is a literal q-string that just happens to go through split " ". I don't know where you are getting your information. perlop calls C<q> and C<qq> string literals, but calls C<qw> a word list. Since you mention C<split>, you could be talking about the implementation? The implementation is irrelevant, but C<split> is not involved in parsing c<qw>.Thread Previous | Thread Next