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On 30 December 2011 05:14, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> > wrote: >> >> * demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> [2011-12-29T06:08:49] >> > This construct is not regexp specific, and does not warn in other >> > situations. >> > >> > perl -le'my $x="\Qfoo[]"; print $x' >> > foo\[\] >> > >> > IMO, not-a-bug. >> >> Warning on an unmatched \E might make sense. I'm not sure. > > > The attached patch does this. Currently the warning is "Found \E without a > preceding case modification or quoted section", mostly because I felt > particularly unimaginative. No comment on whenever making this warn is a > warranted change or not, but to add another data point, it just brought to > light a bug in Pod::Simple: Pod::Simple::Text is using \E where it probably > meant \Q FWIW, I have no objection to a lone \E warning. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next