note grinder <p>I used slash (/) delimiters for the longest time in my code, until it dawned on me that using a vi-compatible delimiter pair would allow me to bounce on the % key to go from the beginning to the end. (I believe this is written somewhere in the Perl documentation).</p> <p>As a result, <tt>qw()</tt> has become my preferred idiom, as has qq{}. Looking back at older code these days I find that <tt>q/a string/</tt> lacks symmetry, and thus beauty.</p> <p>Getting back to the OP, <i>isn't it much better if everyone uses these operators exactly in the way they are described in Perl manuals</i>, I would say yes, that's a sensible default. But one should know when (and why) to break the rules.</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-29008"> <p align="right"><font size="-2">&bull; another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl</font></p> </div></div> 736637 736648