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)

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