leaning toothpick syndrome

 

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leaning toothpick syndrome

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Introduced in the official Perl documentation, in reference to the shape of the backslash character.

leaning toothpick syndrome (uncountable)

1. (programming) The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.

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