Re^5: That damn "strict"

i wondered very intensely why that doesn't cause a syntax error, but then i came to my senses and stopped really caring

Good thing, otherwise you might have ended up reading the known-to-make-the-strong-weep http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Gory-details-of-parsing-quoted-constructs.

(Actually, it's not that bad. {} delimit the string, with internal pairs of {} being ignored.)

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Re^6: That damn "strict" by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 10, 2006 at 18:35 UTC
That shouldn't make the strong weep. Reserve that for figuring out things like `qq}$foo{bar\}}`. Or somewhat more sanely, something like this: `qq{let's have an unbalanced \{ here.}` But that does bring up an important note. If you know that you'll want a quote with, say, unbalanced parens, then use a different balanced delimiter. For instance () above. (For me this mostly comes up with my having to use {} when I want unbalanced parens.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^6: That damn "strict"
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 10, 2006 at 18:35 UTC

qq}$foo{bar\}}

qq{let's have an unbalanced \{ here.}

But that does bring up an important note. If you know that you'll want a quote with, say, unbalanced parens, then use a different balanced delimiter. For instance () above. (For me this mostly comes up with my having to use {} when I want unbalanced parens.)

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