From: S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com>
To: Mark Tilford <ralphmerridew@gmail.com>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Perl mode and y=>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:26:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317151569.61215.YahooMailNeo@web161608.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKnavseXcTBOqBMxOOqKoV0yH74v+Ru96tOryMiythhmwGj3Rw@mail.gmail.com>
----- Original Message -----
> For some reason, Perl mode behaves oddly
Perl is... odd. I've used perl for a long time with emacs. You just learn to live with the problems.
Perl's syntax has too many cases of context sensitive interpretations of characters. It's just hell to make emacs capable to deal with all this. I suspect Perl is the only software capable of parsing perl code :-)
If it's any consolation, we managed to convince Larry Wall back in the days when perl 5 was being "designed" to not follow Tom Christiansen's idea of what the scope operator should be. Tom wanted the single quote. Most prefered C++'s :: for familiarity and friendlyness to parsers. If you think things are bad now, imagine having the single quote has the scope operator :-)
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2011-09-27 17:51 Perl mode and y=> Mark Tilford
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