Re: Ways of quoting

I have to admit, I hate the idea of the trailing ::.

If you're enumerating the ways to quote things in Perl, don't forget HERE docs:

<<HERE              # Double quoted
<<"HERE"            # Double quoted, explicit.
<<'HERE'            # Single quoted, explicit.
<<\HERE             # Single quoted, uncommonly used.
<<`HERE`            # Same as qx or ``.
<<~HERE             # Double quoted, indented.
<<~"HERE"           # Double quoted, indented.
<<~'HERE'           # Single quoted, indented.
<<~\HERE            # Single quoted, indented, uncommonly used (I'll b
+et you could grep all of CPAN and not find this).
<<~`HERE`           # Same as qx / ``, indented.
[download]

Which made me think, too bad we don't have:

<<~/HERE/x           # Regexp object, indented, multi-line freeform (/
+x modifier).
[download]

Dave

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Re^2: Ways of quoting by haukex (Archbishop) on May 15, 2020 at 21:31 UTC
too bad we don't have: `<<~/HERE/x` `my $re = qr/@{[<<'HERE']}/x; f . . HERE` [download] Close enough? `;-)`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Ways of quoting by davido (Cardinal) on May 16, 2020 at 01:56 UTC
Good enough for an upvote. I tend to shun the `"@{[...]}"` trick in real code, but this is a creative enough solution it made me smile. Dave	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Ways of quoting by hippo (Bishop) on May 16, 2020 at 08:41 UTC
... and commonly referred to as the baby cart. (As a speaker of en_GB that's not a term in our common usage. You are more likely to hear "buggy" or "pram". IMHO this makes the "baby cart" term even more preferable since it has a unique meaning for me - it's only the perl operator, regardless of context.)	[reply]
Re^5: Ways of quoting by tobyink (Canon) on May 17, 2020 at 06:44 UTC
Re^6: Ways of quoting by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on May 17, 2020 at 20:33 UTC
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