Re: [MacPerl] Missing keywords in BBEdit

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

"Brian L. Matthews" <blm@halcyon.com> writes:
>Nicolas Le Clerc writes:
>|I suggest that we make a list of the missing keywords in BBEdit's Perl
>|mode and send it to Bare Bones in the name of the MacPerl mailing list.
>
>It's not just a question of missing keywords, it's general perl5 support.
>In fact, just plain perl support isn't all that hot. $#var and hereis
>docs don't work at all, it's easy to confuse it about what's in a
>quoted string and what's not, etc.

Perl is insanely difficult to parse correctly. The only correct parser
existing is the one in Perl itself.

Matthias

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