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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > I am fully aware that it no longer compiles into that, but nothing > has changed: it is still an uninterpolated literal. > You're acting like I said there's a bug in qw(). qw() is inconsistent with the rest of Perl which defines whitespace to include comments. (e.g. comments can separate tokens (which is the closest the docs come to defining whitespace), regex allow comments as whitespace, lex_read_space skips over comments, etc). And most importantly, people expect comments to work in qw. Noy only has come up a number of over the years, qw even warns you that it can't do comments when you try. The module addresses the inconsistency. - EricThread Previous | Thread Next