Re: Escaping placeholders

Thanks David :)

Tim.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:23:23PM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
>    Please disregard my previous. After reading Tim Bunce's earlier response and thinking about this some
>    more, although backslash escaping can be tricky, that is how Perl does these things, and Perl coders are
>    familiar with the nuances of when they must be doubled to get through quoting. Doubling of syntax
>    characters is a database thing, but it would have to be revised for every new escapable character.
>    Backslash escaping can be embraced once and will continue to work in potentialfutures where other
>    significant characters (aside from colon and question mark) might need to be escaped too.
>    On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:27 AM, David Nicol <[1][email protected]> wrote:
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>      I think the suggestion of making ::(\w+) become :$1 and exempting that from placeholder recognition
>      seems like a complete winner and DBD maintainers could do that right away, and by "do that" I mean
>      accepting, applying, and redistributing patches..
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