> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> : This can be very hard to discover. I find it hard to see myself doing
LW> : this on purpose. I would like to see a compiler warning for this:
LW> : "Spaces detected after apparent here document terminator", but
LW> : preferably phrased b
Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
>
> print < The next line contains a space at the end.
> END
> This is still a here document
> END
>
> This can be very hard to discover. I find it hard to see myself doing
> this on purpose.
I agree with Larry that Perl should Do The Right Thing, bu
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> : And whilst you're in a mood to ignore whitespace, how about C<$/ = "">
>> : terminating on C?
>>
>> I'm more inclined to ignore $/ these days. :-)
>
> Well, just give me a regex getline terminator or pattern matches against
> fileh
> : And whilst you're in a mood to ignore whitespace, how about C<$/ = "">
> : terminating on C?
>
> I'm more inclined to ignore $/ these days. :-)
Well, just give me a regex getline terminator or pattern matches against
filehandles (a la RFC 93) and I'll never mention $/ again ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:> : I would like to see a compiler warning for this:
:> : "Spaces detected after apparent here document terminator", but
:> : preferably phrased better.
:> :
:> : Are there any objections?
:>
:> I object, vaguely. I think it should just Do
> : I would like to see a compiler warning for this:
> : "Spaces detected after apparent here document terminator", but
> : preferably phrased better.
> :
> : Are there any objections?
>
> I object, vaguely. I think it should just Do The Right Thing.
> (I suspect it shou
Ariel Scolnicov writes:
: I was asked to debug a weird Perl5 problem yesterday. The code in
: question looked roughly like this (indented 4 spaces, but otherwise
: unchanged):
:
: #!perl -w
: use strict;
:
: print <
