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On Tue Mar 15 17:24:58 2016, tonyc wrote: > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/35918358/622310 > > > > The specific context id the perlre POD, but there may well be other > > examples elsewhere in the documentation > > > > I submit that using "quoting" when you mean "escaping" is a useless > > synonym, and ultimately confusing when talking about character > > strings. If > > I am asked to ôquote '['ö do I mean ô"["ö or ô\[ö? > > > > The OP who wrote the item referenced above claimed that the two are > > interchangeable and referred to `perlre` in his defence. > > Unfortunately > > he > > is right, and we also have the \Q construction ù presumably short for > > "quote" ù and the `quotemeta` function as legacies to deal with > > "quote" semms to me to be the correct terminology. > Tony, that suggests to me that you do not favor any documentation changes here. If so, can we close this ticket? > We quote text to avoid any special meaning for that text, eg: > > $x = exit; > > vs > > $x = "exit" > > Emacs uses the quote-next operator to insert the next character typed > literally. > > Tony Thank you very much. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127687Thread Next