From: David H. <dav...@bl...> - 2004-09-13 15:56:14
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trans. (T. Onoma) wrote: > On Monday 13 September 2004 10:46 am, Clark C. Evans wrote: > >>- >> the tag ! is given special meaning to allow ?var to be reported >> with the double quoted variety, since the plain scalar style is >> not capable of serializing all unicode characters > > Might we not simply allow plain scalars to do the necessary escaping? Or is > there some reason that is not possible? Suppose you want to specify a regexp -- then you would need to quadruple-escape literal '\' characters, e.g. !!re [\\\\]* Quadruple-escaping is quite disgusting, IMHO. -- David Hopwood <dav...@bl...> |