For 'confess', it is trivial: 

 % perl -MCarp=confess -e"confess 'this ', 'is split'"
this is split at -e line 1

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If it isn't something that can deal with a list of strings, then I use join the vast majority of the time (because '.' has lousy precedence for such, 'sprintf' quickly leads to action-at-a-distance, '<<' can't be sanely indented, etc.).

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: 78/80 chars perl line still a meaningful rule (,) by tye
in thread 78/80 chars perl line still a meaningful rule by McA

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