> > Is it worth coming up with an alternative name? 'dor' ? Anything we > > pick will have potential collisions, but we should pick something with > > less of a chance. > > Too late I think. dor patches have been available for 5.8.x for a > long time already, and I would not place a bet on how many people > already use it. I know that Abigail and I do.
I would make a bet. I doubt that there's more than a handful of people using the patches. You and Abigail aren't really representative of most of the perl users out there.[1] > I agree it's not the best name we've ever chosen in perl, but we > probably need to live with it. It hasn't been in a stable release. Until 5.10 comes out, its fair game to change. Google for q[perl "sub err"], and there are lots of uses out there. If the users of these scripts get errors or weird issues when upgrading to 5.10, they won't. And that'll be a shame, because 5.10 has/will have lots of cool stuff. -R Footnotes: [1] We recently got an email at perl.org from someone asking where he could get perl for OS X 10.3.
