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Documented behaviour (Score:2)

by Juerd (1796) on 2004.03.08 17:46 (#29216) Homepage

See perlop, "Gory details of parsing quoted constructs".

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- Re:Documented behaviour (Score:2)
  
  by Ovid (2709)
  
  I wasn't aware that it was documented until I saw your post on Perlmonks. "Find the end first" certainly clears that up.

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