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Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: r...@rodadams.net (Rod Adams)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:07:13 -0600
Local: Wed, Mar 16 2005 3:07 am
Subject: quotemeta
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Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: Rich...@waveney.org (Richard Proctor)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:17:33 +0000 (GMT)
Local: Wed, Mar 16 2005 5:17 am
Subject: Re: quotemeta
On Wed 16 Mar, Rod Adams wrote:
> I vote for axing C<quotemeta> in favor of C<q:meta//> and C<q:m//>. Given A05 states that bare scalars match literally, quotemeta is (almost?) obsolete. It can certainly be downgraded. Richard -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: la...@wall.org (Larry Wall)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:41:03 -0800
Local: Wed, Mar 16 2005 12:41 pm
Subject: Re: quotemeta
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:17:33AM +0000, Richard Proctor wrote: : On Wed 16 Mar, Rod Adams wrote: : > I vote for axing C<quotemeta> in favor of C<q:meta//> and C<q:m//>. : > : : Given A05 states that bare scalars match literally, quotemeta is (almost?) : obsolete. It can certainly be downgraded. Except that q:meta would be an upgrade in terms of specialness, Larry You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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From: ju...@convolution.nl (Juerd)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:46:29 +0100
Local: Wed, Mar 16 2005 4:46 pm
Subject: Re: quotemeta
Larry Wall skribis 2005-03-16 9:41 (-0800):
> Except that q:meta would be an upgrade in terms of specialness, Doesn't it want to be the method .escaped then? The method could support > and besides, it's inside out from what you want, which is to quote > a particular argument to a string interpolation, not the entire > interpolation. It just wants to be a miscellaneous function hidden > in the bowels of the core somewhere. all kinds of escaping/encoding. Juerd You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: la...@wall.org (Larry Wall)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:18:25 -0800
Local: Wed, Mar 16 2005 5:18 pm
Subject: Re: quotemeta
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:46:29PM +0100, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-03-16 9:41 (-0800): : > Except that q:meta would be an upgrade in terms of specialness, : > and besides, it's inside out from what you want, which is to quote : > a particular argument to a string interpolation, not the entire : > interpolation. It just wants to be a miscellaneous function hidden : > in the bowels of the core somewhere. : : Doesn't it want to be the method .escaped then? The method could support : all kinds of escaping/encoding. The question is, escaped for what? quotemeta() is rather Unix-centric Maybe we're just talking about an option to .as(). Larry You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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