Re: quotes in Perl

[ikegami]

Unmentioned are:

• Special sequences such as \n.
• Which characters need to be escaped in which kind of quotes.
• What happens if you escape a character that doesn't need escaping.
• Interpolation of arrays.
• Non-interpolation of hashes, globs and code.
• Special variables affecting interpolation, such as $, (and maybe only $,).
• How to interpolate expressions using "@{[ expr ]}"
• <<marker vs <<"marker" vs <<'marker'.

I'm not saying that any of these things should be mentioned, just that you should consider whether they should be mentioned or not.

[ihb]

Half of the issues you raise here is more about interpolation than about quoting. The document is about quoting, and so IMHO it should keep itself to quote matters. Some aren't directly about quoting, and some aren't directly about interpolation.

Perhaps one can do a sister document that is about quote interpretation that would include both interpolation issues and and escaping issues, and link between it and this document.

ihb