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On Wed May 25 09:44:41 2011, mfwitten wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 16:30, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 16:03, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: > >>>> Actually, I tried to use `delimiter' very strictly throughout this text > >>>> and this term is defined earlier as being the text in EXPR that matches > >>>> PATTERN: > >>>> > >>>> Anything in EXPR that matches PATTERN is taken to be a delimiter > >>>> that separates the EXPR into substrings (called "I<fields>") that > >>>> do B<not> include the delimiter. Note that a delimiter may be > >>>> longer than one character or even have no characters at all (the > >>>> empty string, which is a zero-width match). > >>> > >>> But that's wrong. A delimiter is a surrounder, not a separator. > >>> Strings are quote-delimited. Literal lists are comma-separated. > >>> These are not at all like each other. > > > >> Perhaps so. I can buy that; I'll use `separator' then. > > > > Good. �Thanks. �Check perlglossary: > > Awesome. Perhaps all of the documentation should link to the glossary > more liberally? > > >>> I feel much more strongly about this than I have here expressed, > >>> and I hope I won't need to do so. > >> > >> What on earth do you mean? Are you holding back, good man? > > > > Why certainly, but it's better that way. > > > > But as you insist, here is a taste. > > > > [a taste] > > Outstanding! > > I, for one, appreciate your robust expostulation. > I’ve taken your patch and incorporated suggestions from others as best I can. I also omitted the part about things that optimise to a single space, because I consider that a bug. I have applied the result as bd46758519. Thank you. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=90632