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From:
demerphq
Date:
February 24, 2013 21:38
Subject:
Re: [perl #116086] split "\x20" doesn't work as documented
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CANgJU+WYW3E6eivmnYYyqDA6q-OG7An_haBOdwMYEZk05z758w@mail.gmail.com
On 24 February 2013 21:39, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:
> Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote
>    on Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:32:25 MST:
>
>>On 02/24/2013 08:58 AM, demerphq wrote:
>>> IOW i believe that anything that resolves to a string eq to " " should
>>> get the special behavior. Anything that is qr// or // quoted should
>>> not. Regardless as to whether it is compile time.
>
>> That sounds reasonable to me
>
> I confess that that is how I'd always thought that it *did* work -- until
> I started testing it.

Well then you might be pleased to learn that I have finally managed to
make it work as we both seem to expect it to work.

Running a final make test now.

I swear I am going to have nightmares about the optree tonight.

cheers,
Yves


-- 
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

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