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: The task says: List the special characters and escape sequences. Likely we can define special characters as those that can't be used in symbols (like variables or functions names) and have a "special" built-in meaning in the language. Escape sequences are those used in string literals '''and''' to use special characters like normal symbol, when this can be done (like in TeX). --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 11:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
== The Perl answer ==
I'm not sure about the Perl-Part for several reasons:
* it is very long, mainly because it list many (not all) operators the language has.
* The description of operators lack the meaning of some operators in list context (which would make the list even longer)
* There is nothing said about the sigils ($%&*), which are really special characters in that language.
* are m, s, y, tr, qr, qw, q and qq special charakters? i think, they are, more than the other operators.
* same goes for // and ??;
* Heredoc begin?
Same note as above, What are special charakters? is ~ a special charackter, because it's an undocumented operator?
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