Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 07:29 PM 8/10/00 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>>Thanks for the clarification in your intentions, but isn't _any_ bareword is
>>converted to a string, unless it is in some particular context where a 
>>bareword is
>>meaningful (such as filehandle)?  So that seems to be nothing unique to 
>>=>.  You
>>could just as well say
>>
>>       bareword, $whatever
>>
>>and get the same effect in perl5!
>
>Have you used strict lately? :-)

It also matters in this case:

sub bareword { } 

foo(bareword,4);

vs

foo(bareword => 4);





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Nick Ing-Simmons