beno
Escaping in sigil_w
There appears to be no way to escape whitespace in word lists, so sigil_w (and sigil_W) can only be used for lists of single words. Of course that is its main purpose, but to me it would be much more useful if it would allow something like:
~w[foo\ bar baz] => [“foo bar”, “baz”]
Is there any reason it doesn’t work this way?
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adamu
I just never use them. It doesn’t take much effort to write out a list, and it’s completely unambiguous when read - which is many more times than written.
fuelen
it doesn’t fit semantically
sodapopcan
I like to think of these sigils as a way to communicate intent to the reader (the list should only be made up of single string tokens) rather than a shorthand for the writer. I never use the a modifier for this reason, as well as others.
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