leaning toothpick syndrome

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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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