[MacPerl] bug?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

Can anyone confirm whether or not this is correct behavior?

        print q{\{this # and that\}}

I would expect this to print:

        {this # and that}

But it prints:

        \{this # and that}

And ...

        print q{{this # and that\}}

returns:

        # Can't find string terminator "}" anywhere before EOF.

This to me seems like a bug.  I can understand treating { specially
throughout, but then it should be able to be escaped, as ' would.

I further confirmed the problem in perl5.00401, so unless I hear there is a
good reason for this, I'll report it to perlbug.

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Chris Nandor             pudge@pobox.com             http://pudge.net/
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