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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: A Lispish Perl?
In-Reply-To: colas@aye.inria.fr's message of 30 Oct 1995 17:33:26 GMT
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>>>>> "Colas" == Colas Nahaboo <colas@aye.inria.fr> writes:

> arent you tired of writing: "set a
> \"foo bar\"" just use: ^^set a "foo bar"^^

What if I want a string which contains ^^?  This doesn't seem to me to
eliminate quoting.  I'd have thought Perl's way of allowing you to
define your own quote character for each string was better.
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/

