On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:14:47PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> 
> I am going to miss doublequoting being the default quoting for
> here strings.  I find that to be a very nice optimization and
> would like to know more about the reasoning behind taking it
> away.  I worry that official standard p6 will be more difficult
> to use than official standard p5.
>

yeah, I agree, the apoc-doc also didn't give any reason as to why this was 
happening. I'd think that the automagic going along with FH, ie:

while ($line = FH)
{
}

would generalize quite easily into

print <<EOF;

EOF

Anyways, my one curiosity that sticks out would be: why \Q as being a way to
disambiguate? You could do the same thing with:

print "$foo\[1]\n"
vs
print "$foo[1]\n";

Ed

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