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* Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> [2016-03-06 06:20]:
> On 6 March 2016 at 10:59, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> > […]
>
> What would this do?:
>
> $prefix = "/some/path/with a space/";
> @y = qqw{ $prefix/hunter $prefix/bar };
>
> Your description so far indicates that the output would be
>
> ( '/some/path/with' , 'a' , 'space/hunter' )
Sorry for the confusion. If you ignore the opening prose and concentrate
on the examples, they will show you what I intended, but since I screwed
that up, let me restate my position for clarity.
This line:
qqw( $prefix/foo $prefix/bar $prefix/baz );
… ought to yield the same result as this line:
( "$prefix/foo", "$prefix/bar", "$prefix/baz" );
… and *not* as this line:
split ' ', "$prefix/foo $prefix/bar $prefix/baz";
… because that last line is already real easy to write in various ways
that allow low-ceremony syntax for larger lists. E.g. for larger lists,
split ' ', qq(
$prefix/foo
$prefix/bar
$prefix/baz
$prefix/quux
$prefix/qux
...
);
There’s little point in adding yet another way of writing that, when the
other kind of result incurs a per-item punctuation tax:
(
"$prefix/foo",
"$prefix/bar",
"$prefix/baz",
"$prefix/quux",
"$prefix/qux",
# ...
);
(And that’s the least noisy way of formatting it.)
So that is the case that ought to gain some syntactic relief, if any.
Hope I did a better job this time.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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