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Clarify more things about what works inside qt{} strings #26

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@leonerd leonerd commented Sep 23, 2022

The original text did not explicitly mention that regular $foo interpolation does not work here, but it seemed implied so I've added some words.

I've also added a guess at some words to try to clarify what to do with \x-style escapes. I think people would get upset if they couldn't at least have \n for a linefeed, so by extension I suspect any of the escapes that just stand in for some other literal character would be fine. The only problem ones are the case/quotmeta ones, so I've explicitly disallowed those.

@leonerd leonerd requested a review from rjbs September 23, 2022 21:40
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The case-changing or quotemeta escapes (`\l`, `\L`, `\u`, `\U`, `\F`, `\Q`,
`\E`) are not allowed.
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I don't have strong feelings about this, but:

  • if we don't allow them it's easy to use quotemeta, uc, lc, fc, and ucfirst (but there is no lcfirst)
  • but what's the problem with allowing them?

That is: is it actually simpler to forbid qt/foo \l{ $obj->name } bar/ or to allow it? If it's easier to allow, it seems simpler to explain also.

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  • if we don't allow them it's easy to use quotemeta, uc, lc, fc, and ucfirst (but there is no lcfirst)
    There is lcfirst:
    lcfirst EXPR
    lcfirst Returns the value of EXPR with the first character lowercased.
            This is the internal function implementing the "\l" escape in
            double-quoted strings.

            If EXPR is omitted, uses $_.

            This function behaves the same way under various pragmas, such
            as in a locale, as "lc" does.

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Well, I feel foolish on that front! I'm sure I ran perldoc -f to check, but trying to reproduce that right now, I typoed ucfirst into ucfist and I bet I did that before, too.

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As to the meat of your question, I don't think it makes a huge difference to the implementation, but with qt you can always do "... { lc $foo } ..."

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