* Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2016-03-11T00:52:04] > On Thu Mar 10 16:01:19 2016, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote: > > @x = qqw( x:abc x:@def x:ghi ); > > > > It would be bizarre for the second example to only have x: on the first > > element from @def. If @def is empty, it ought to become "", similarly. > > Would you please clarify with examples? Does x:@def above become one element > of @x, or does it fill @x with as many elements as are in @def? I mean that, given @def=(1,2,3), @x would be: ("x:abc", "x:1 2 3", "x:ghi") > > That said, I wish we could solve this kind of nonsense: > > qq<$x{">"}>; # syntax error > [...] > Would it be possible to make qqw work the ‘new’ way? Or would it be to > confusing if it does not conform to the way qw works? > I think it would be too confusing. :( -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next