use Perl

• The old adage... (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Only perl can parse Perl. :-)
  • Re:The old adage... (Score:1)

    by cog (4665)

    But would you consider that Mason should parse that the way I expected or the way it does (first tag closes and we get an error)?
    • Re:The old adage... (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2005.01.28 11:48 (#37853) Homepage Journal

      I would expect Mason to parse it the way it does. To do it “correctly” it would have to parse the Perl code between the tags to find out whether the tag is a literal or embedded in a string or some suchlike, and attempt to do that would be foolproof. (Think, as a trivial example, print q(</%perl>); — and you can make up much hairier ones.)

      A simple workaround is print "</"."%perl>";.

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      • Re:The old adage... (Score:1)

        by cog (4665)

        I guess you're right.

        A simple workaround is print "</"."%perl>";

        Actually, "<\/%perl>" does the trick just fine :-)