Re: [MacPerl] 99 bottles

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

> Cute!  I had to replace some "s"'s with "S", because BBEdit and Macperl
> were confusing it with the substitution operator.  I also had to replace
> all "q" with "Q" for a similar reason.

I'll have a complete discussion of this "problem," and another 
work-around in my forthcoming article on "Speaking MacPerl," due out 
hopefully in the December issue of PerlMonth (maybe).

Placing 's' and 'q' in single-quotes suppresses interpolation. Neither 
BBEdit (which will otherwise add inappropriate syntax coloring), nor 
MacPerl will there-after see those as being reserved words.  This is not 
actually a problem within Perl itself, which interprets the hash items 
correctly.  It also isn't a problem if you're using Alpha as your editor 
(which David is).

I prefer to use the single-quotes to show literally $acc{'s'} and 
$dur{'q'} rather than s}} and q}} which although obsfucated could be 
valid expressions.

Also note that my version means only making a change to the initial 
assignments and not to every occurance of "q" or "s".

--B

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