leaning toothpick syndrome
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
Introduced in the official Perl documentation, in reference to the shape of the backslash character.
Synonyms
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