[MacPerl] '' vs q()

[Xah Lee <xah@best.com>]

Here's an interesting example showing that '' and q() are not always equivalent.

Those knowledgable please feel free to expound. I wonder if this hehavior should be improved in next versiof of Perl?

 Xah, xah@best.com
 http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html
 Mountain View, CA, USA

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $text = << q{eeend};
technique for verbertim
quoting of texts that may
contain all types of special
characters such as ({[<"'\//\'">]})
eeend

print $text;

__END__



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