Re: Quote and Quote-like Operators

[jeffa]

No. One should choose the delimiters based on what they are wanting to avoid having to escape. If we used them only with {} then we would have to escape {} every time. Best to pick something else:

my $string = q/{(foo => "'bar'")}/;

[grinder]

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).

As a result, qw() has become my preferred idiom, as has qq{}. Looking back at older code these days I find that q/a string/ lacks symmetry, and thus beauty.

Getting back to the OP, isn't it much better if everyone uses these operators exactly in the way they are described in Perl manuals, I would say yes, that's a sensible default. But one should know when (and why) to break the rules.

[setebos]

I see no difference between:


my $string = q/{(foo => "'bar'")}/;

and


my $string = q{{(foo => "'bar'")}};

[Jenda]

That's only true when the curlies are properly nested within the string. Again, it depends. Sometimes the test of the proper nesting is a plus, sometimes it's a bother.

[jeffa]

My syntax highlighter does. Perhaps i did not pick the best example. My point is still valid.