in reply to Re^3: Are we seeing syntax inconsistency?
in thread Are we seeing syntax inconsistency?

You mean something like eval qq{ sub { print "\Q$_\E" } }? Not what I think of as a pretty solution, since you’re firing up the compiler (and repeatedly) at runtime, but yeah, that would do it.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^5: Are we seeing syntax inconsistency?
by sgifford (Prior) on Nov 11, 2005 at 18:56 UTC
    It may not be pretty, but I personally believe that, on a deeper level, the Perl interpreter enjoys this approach more. :-)