Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Patterns vs Strings Message-ID: <121642@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 7 Feb 91 19:42:21 GMT Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 13 Are patterns a semi data type in their own right? Are they replacable with strings? The manual/book never addresses this explicitly. My experiments lead me to belive that whenever a "pattern" is expected, slashes are "promoted" to double quotes, as if "qq" had been stuck in front. -- Root Boy Jim Cottrell I got a head full of ideas They're driving me insane