Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from January 2017
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 07:09:45AM -0500, David Mertens wrote:
> As it is, heredocs would be broken for the OP, too, as would pod
> directives. I don't think Perl needs to convert \r to \n, it just needs to
> let \r represent end-of-line for syntax that expects significant whitespace.
Well, <<EOF expects exactly "\nEOF\n", so whitespace is significant there,
so presumably "\rEOF\r" should be interpreted as "\nEOF\n". Which means
that
$a = <<EOF
A
\rEOF\r
B
EOF
would set $a to "A\n" rather than "A\n\rEOF\r\nB\n"
I think that way madness lies.
--
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system
of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the
masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
-- Dennis, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next