Re^2: Quote and Quote-like Operators

[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.