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wording improvement in gory parsing details
Perl is not ambivalent, but it can handle ambiguity.
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interpretations, Perl uses the B<DWIM> (that's "Do What I Mean")
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principle to pick the most probable interpretation. This strategy
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is so successful that Perl programmers often do not suspect the
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ambivalence of what they write. But from time to time, Perl's
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ambiguity of what they write. But from time to time, Perl's
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notions differ substantially from what the author honestly meant.
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This section hopes to clarify how Perl handles quoted constructs.

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