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wording improvement in gory parsing details
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Perl is not ambivalent, but it can handle ambiguity.
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karenetheridge authored and tonycoz committed Jul 11, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -3053,7 +3053,7 @@ When presented with something that might have several different
interpretations, Perl uses the B<DWIM> (that's "Do What I Mean")
principle to pick the most probable interpretation. This strategy
is so successful that Perl programmers often do not suspect the
ambivalence of what they write. But from time to time, Perl's
ambiguity of what they write. But from time to time, Perl's
notions differ substantially from what the author honestly meant.

This section hopes to clarify how Perl handles quoted constructs.
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