That is an excellent idea. qw() already supports \ for escaping the closing delimiter (or repeats of the opening delimiter when using "paired" delimiters). So it makes sense to support "\," and "\#" to avoid the warnings and to support "\ " for including whitespace inside "words".

Unfortunately, that isn't currently the case (and there would be a very minor backward compatability issue).

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