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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Need clarification of assoc. arrays
Message-ID: <11245@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 31 Jan 91 04:50:08 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.033851.19246@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Jan31.033851.19246@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> marc@mit.edu writes:
: I'm using '' assuming that perl will try to interpolate in "" strings
: even if there is no interpolation to be done.  If perl is smarter
: than that, great.  (Is it, Larry?)

Yes.  Even "\n" is considered a single-quoted string after it's compiled.

Larry