I think Andy's post is going through moderation, but I can still reply to it. :)
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:01:11 +0100 > From: Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mike Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Assembler Strings > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:57:42PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >b) 'a\"b' was printing being stored as a\"b and not a"b > > > > The patch for the first looks good, but I'm not sure about the > > second. Have we settled on the behavior of single-quoted strings? > > Don't know about "settled" but I suggest that the previous behaviour > was the correct one. The only characters that should be escaped in a > single quoted strings are C<'> and C<\>. Anything else is literal. > > e.g. > > 'foo\'bar\\ping\"pong' => foo'bar\ping\"pong > ^ ^ ^ > yep yep nope You're arguing for an implementation of the previous behavior. What you describe is neither before nor after, but somewhere in the middle. :) Before, it did: foo\'bar\ping\"pong Now it does: foo'bar\ping"pong To implement the behavior you described (to match Perl5's behavior), you'd need to pass the delimiter around in Assembler.pm. Should I revisit my patch to adhere to the example above, or sit on it all until some form of proper assembler quoting behavior is defined? Mike Lambert
