Re: [MacPerl] bug?

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

Aperghis-Tramoni Sebastian <madingue@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
>On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) wrote:
>> Can anyone confirm whether or not this is correct behavior?

Hard to say about correct, but it's known behavior.

>> print q{\{this # and that\}}
>>
>> I would expect this to print:
>>
>> {this # and that}
>>
>> But it prints:
>>
>> \{this # and that}

>But I think that this behavior is normal. As you define "{" as opening bracet,
  
>Perl expect you to use "}" as closinbg bracet, and as q// does not  
>interpolate, the only allowed interpolations are "\\" and "\}".

Agreed  According to Tom Christiansen, this is also described in the
Friedl Regexp book..

>    print q{ { }      ->  Can't find string terminator "}" anywhere before EOF
>    print q{ { } }    ->  { }
>    print q{ \{ } }   ->  Unmatched right bracket
>    print q{ { \} }   ->  Can't find string terminator "}" anywhere before EOF
>    print q{ \{ \} }  ->  \{ }

This behaviour, however, is rather unpleasant and could possibly be considered
a bug.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   neeri@iis.ethz.ch
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