Re: $RS paragraph mode going away?

2002-07-06 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Larry Wall wrote : > > Paragraph mode is not going away--it's merely going elsewhere. :-) > >: If so, what's the rationale? Another case of "you can't do it right >: internationally, so better not to do it at all"? > > No, it's simply that using a global variable to control something > that s

Re: $RS paragraph mode going away?

2002-07-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote: : Did I hear somewhere that paragraph mode (i.e., C<$/ = ''>) is going away? : I can't find it in my archives, so maybe it was one of my feverish Perl 6 : dreams (of which I've had too many lately, after spending a few days in : training with Damian ;-) but I

$RS paragraph mode going away?

2002-07-05 Thread Trey Harris
Did I hear somewhere that paragraph mode (i.e., C<$/ = ''>) is going away? I can't find it in my archives, so maybe it was one of my feverish Perl 6 dreams (of which I've had too many lately, after spending a few days in training with Damian ;-) but I think I heard it said by someone with authorit