Re: [MacPerl] '' vs q()

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 04.05 1998.05.18, Xah Lee wrote:
>#!/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;

You don't need to do that.  <<'EOT' does not require anything to be escaped
that I know of.

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

my $text = <<'EOT';
!@#$%^&*()-_=+/?\|{}][~
EOT
print $text;

This is not a perfect test case, but I don't think anything needs to be
escaped with single quotes.

But if you do feel q() should work, perlbug it (i.e., send mail to
perlbug@perl.com, preferably with the perlbug program that comes with Unix
versions of perl).

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