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I've seen people try to do this:
my $delim = $if_something ? " " : qr/\s+/;
@fields = split $delim, $string;
And they are *very* surprised that it doesn't work the same as
@fields = split $if_something ? " " : /\s+/, $string;
That is really hard to explain, you know? Not easy to justify either.
Either it should clearly state that this space trick is a magic literal
literal and that cannot be in variable, or else it should be fixed so
anything that shows up as a U+0020 counts as that.
--tom
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