On 04/07/2016 12:28 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
On 7 April 2016 at 07:20, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
qq{} obviously wins when there would otherwise be a lot of escaping, but
are there any downsides of using this method more generally (other than
double-quotes being two characters shorter)? For exam
On 7 April 2016 at 07:20, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>
> qq{} obviously wins when there would otherwise be a lot of escaping, but
> are there any downsides of using this method more generally (other than
> double-quotes being two characters shorter)? For example, is it "faster"
> for Perl to parse
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 08:20:24PM +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working my way through Learning Perl (6th) and Modern Perl (4th) and
> was wondering whether there are any (non-obvious) drawbacks to the
> different string quoting methods.
>
> First up, double-quoted strings. The
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:29:26 -0400
Uri Guttman wrote:
> my rule is for the reader and not the computer. i try to use '' when
> i know there is no interpolation and "" when there is. i am telling
> the reader to either not look or to look inside the string.
PBP recommends that yo use q{} for singl
On 04/06/2016 03:20 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
Hi,
I'm working my way through Learning Perl (6th) and Modern Perl (4th) and
was wondering whether there are any (non-obvious) drawbacks to the
different string quoting methods.
First up, double-quoted strings. The "usual method" of double-quot
Hi,
I'm working my way through Learning Perl (6th) and Modern Perl (4th) and
was wondering whether there are any (non-obvious) drawbacks to the
different string quoting methods.
First up, double-quoted strings. The "usual method" of double-quoting
has an alternative of qq{For a string with $varia
