Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Damian Conway sent the following bits through the ether: If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm module to Perl 6!!! D'oh! ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europe - September 22-24 London - http://yapc.org/Europe/

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-09 Thread Bart Lateur
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:59:41 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: D'oh! ;-) Ah, yes. Chris Nandor's module D'oh couldn't possibly be called with this appropriate name any more. http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=modulequery=d%3A%3Aoh OTOH, try this: $hash{a'b} = 1; print keys

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-09 Thread Larry Wall
Bart Lateur writes: : On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:59:41 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: : : D'oh! ;-) : : Ah, yes. Chris Nandor's module D'oh couldn't possibly be called with : this appropriate name any more. : : http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=modulequery=d%3A%3Aoh : : : OTOH, try this: : :

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Damian Conway wrote: If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm module to Perl 6!!! And this would be a bad thing how, exactly? :) I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND But, but... I'm sitting! :-P

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-08 Thread Steve Simmons
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:59:40PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Damian Conway wrote: If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm module to Perl 6!!! And this would be a bad thing how, exactly? :) I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-08 Thread Damian Conway
Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still in Perl 5. It's gotta go. (At least, it should.) N! If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm module to Perl 6!!! ;-) Damian

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Damian Conway wrote: Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still in Perl 5. It's gotta go. (At least, it should.) N! If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm module to Perl 6!!! And this

Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-08 Thread Damian Conway
If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm module to Perl 6!!! And this would be a bad thing how, exactly? :) I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND ;-) Damian

RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

2000-08-08 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Aug 2000 Version: 1 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Developing Number: 71