Why I’m Learning Perl 6

Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6 by bloobloobloo on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:34PM (#14871008)

> What do you mean by "Python's quoting documentation"

String literals are described by the following lexical definitions:

   stringliteral:   shortstring | longstring
   shortstring:     "'" shortstringitem* "'" | '"' shortstringitem* '"'
   longstring:      "'''" longstringitem* "'''" | '"""' longstringitem* '"""'
   shortstringitem: shortstringchar | escapeseq
   longstringitem:  longstringchar | escapeseq
   shortstringchar: <any ASCII character except "\" or newline or the quote>
   longstringchar:  <any ASCII character except "\">
   escapeseq:       "\" <any ASCII character>

You can't paste that text into a file and write a Python program around it that outputs the same text. You need to encode the quote characters.

More generally, there is no way in (many languages including) Python to treat an arbitrary (yet known) block of data as data.

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Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6 by b2gills on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:07AM (#14871890)

For those that don't know you can use `｢` and `｣` to quote anything that does not contain `｣` and Perl 6 won't process it in any way other than storing it as a Str.

If you needed to have `｣` in there you can fall back to `Q{{{{{{…}}}}}}` or `Q:to<END>;␤…␤END␤`

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