Your question is interesting, and it's a shame that the answers to your question don't contain much more than "that's ridiculous". Clearly a lot of thought went into those answers. Not.

Regarding your suggestion. Since perl already detects runaway strings, it would be nice to have the compiler say "I found a runaway string starting with "foxx', but if I change your ' to a " then I can compile it.

Perhaps in perl6 we could have a module that fires up when the compile fails and tries to mangle the code near the syntax error until it compiles.

Nice idea, I'll have to think about it some more.

Update: I suspect that this is getting downvotes because people don't like the idea of a compiler automatically correcting their mistakes. I don't like that idea either. But I do like the idea of a compiler printing out "syntax error at line 65, did you mean 'print "foxx"' instead?"

They should put a feature like this in Perl. Oh wait! They already did.

Thanks to chromatic for the correction.

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In reply to Re: making perl more forgiving by jepri
in thread making perl more forgiving by simplitia

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