Re: String Literals, take 3

Drew Folta wrote:

>>=head3 <<>>; expanding a string as a list.
>>
>>A set of braces is a special op that evaluates into the list of words
>>contained, using whitespace as the delimeter.  It is similar to qw[]
>>from perl5, and can be thought of as roughly equivalent to:
>>C<< "STRING".split(' ') >>
>>    
>>
>
>Hmm... should we mention the rough equivalence, or the technically correct
>equivalence (which would be c<< "STRING".split(rx/\s+/) >>).  The answer
>to that question is the answer to this question:  what is the scope of
>this document?  Is it for newbies (or p5 converts) or is it a language
>reference (as I read mentioned somewhere else).
>

Again, C<< "STRING".split(' ') >> is different than
C<< "STRING".split(/\s+/) >>.  The latter will add an empty element to
the beginning of the string if there is leading whitespace, which is
not the behaivor <<>> will have (if it acts like qw(), at any rate.)