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

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. : : : : : OTOH, try this: :

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

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. OTOH, try this: $hash{a'b} = 1; print key

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

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

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 SH

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

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

> > 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

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

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

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

> 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

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

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 =hea