On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > This particular modeful behavior is easily handled by most current > editors. You have to be able to treat the insides of strings different > from the outsides. That being said, there are plenty of other things > in Perl 6 already that will drive editors nuts. This just isn't one > of them.
Also, "only perl can parse Perl", and I don't think this will change with Perl6... anyway FWIW there are only 1.5 circumstances in which my editor (jed) regularly bugs me when writing perl code... Michele -- I find the line "I am not pestering anybody, I am asking questions on usenet. That's what usenet is for." a classic. It's like "I am not talking to you, I am just opening and closing my mouth while standing close to you. That's what a mouth is for." - David Kastrup, on comp.text.tex (slightly edited)