Re: autoscan.pl clean-up

[Jim Meyering]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:
| On Jan 29, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
|
| >>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
| Jim> Of these changes, only the backslash-quoting one is absolutely
| Jim> necessary.
|
| > Thanks, I applied your patch, but the necessary part is the one I
| > don't understand.  Why do you quote these?
|
| Because `@' is a variable prefix in Perl?

I shouldn't have done that.
It was a knee-jerk reaction to seeing the warning from Perl about `@'
in a double-quoted string, as a result of my running `make something'.
Of course, now, I am unable to reproduce it.

Sorry.
If only I'd looked at how the code is actually used...