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.
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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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title = {leaning toothpick syndrome},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leaning%20toothpick%20syndrome},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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