JazzHarper's Journal: A Perl Lesson for the Day

If you have a block of quoted text inside the single-quoting operator q(), a backslash preceding a '(' or ')' (or whatever delimiter characters you have chosen for q()), will be parsed as an escape on that delimiter character. Therefore, you must escape any literal backslash if it appears before '(' or ')'.

Example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print q(
This is a test... x(1), x\(2\), x\[3\], x\\(4\\).
);

The rationale for this undocumented Perl feature is reasonable. The q() operator will ignore balanced pairs of delimiter characters that appear in the enclosed text, but it is sometimes necessary to write text that contains unbalanced delimiters. To make that possible, the q() operator must recognize the escape on its delimiters.

Pedal-free Harp?

[Commander Trollco]

Why the fuck would anyone play a diatonic harp? What is wrong with you? If you want to play an obsolete, unused sort of harp, try looking up one of the old double-row Chromatic Harps. No pedals, fully chromatic. They are even a step up from the standard diatonic-but-chromatic-through-pedals harp.