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Peter Makholm <peter <at> makholm.net> writes: >>qw() is inconsistent with the rest of Perl which defines whitespace to >>include comments. > >Isn't it quite consisten with the default handling of # in all the other >quote like operators. Neither tr/// nor qx// have any special handling >making '#' used for comments. Neither does m//, but you can give the /x modifier to allow comments. So perhaps qw//x should be the syntax for a quoted word list with # comments stripped out. That would be incompatible, though: % perl -E 'say qw/a b/x 2' abab -- Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next