RFC PEP candidate: q'<delim>'quoted<delim> ?

Jason Orendorff jason at jorendorff.com
Tue Mar 12 16:43:34 EST 2002


Neil Hodgson wrote:
>    In my experience writing a lexer for Perl (for use in syntax styling
> editors), 'here documents' and arbitrary quote sequences add much 
> complexity to a lexer. [...]

(skeptical look)  Are you really claiming to have written a lexer
for Perl?  Is that even possible?

## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/




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