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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote: > 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 > ... and we're back to June 30th: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Eirik Berg Hanssen <ebhanssen@cpan.org>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Ricardo Signes < > perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > >> 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... >> > > qr// (&c) does not permit comments, but qr//x does. > > Feature 'qw//x', anyone? > > > Eirik, not sure if he's serious or not ... > Eirik, with a strange sense of déjà douté ...Thread Previous