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I was skeptical about this warning, and a simple experiment shows that it is not accurate:
A \Q cannot be ended by a \E in an interpolated string. And, using B::Deparse's -q option in 5.6, we can see why:DB<1> $x = '???\E???' DB<2> p "\Q$x" \?\?\?\\E\?\?\? DB<3>
This shows that \Q\E inside a double-quoted string is actually compiled as concatenation and quotemeta. The value of $x at runtime won't change the scope of the quotemeta().~> perl -MO=Deparse,-q -e '$x = q{?\E?}; $y = "a\Q$x\Eb"; print "$y\n" +' $x = '?\\E?'; $y = quotemeta $x; print $y . "\n"; -e syntax OK
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