Plus, ' is already widely-used as a single-quote, so
That's a good argument. Unambiguating the language and simplifying
the parser.
I agree. I think this is a *compelling* reason to kill off ' as a
package name separator.
As for Klingon.pm, it SPURNS your PATHETIC HUMAN
Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still
in Perl 5. It's gotta go.
Aside from "its old", is there any particular reason why $pkg'var
should go?
"use D'oh" will be missed :-), but sometimes legacy stuff needs to be
expunged to get people to modernize.
I
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:18:05AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
"use D'oh" will be missed :-), but sometimes legacy stuff needs to be
expunged to get people to modernize.
Of all the legacy things which get abused, this is the one
I've never seen.
Plus, ' is already widely-used as a
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
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 71
Version:
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:20:23AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still
in Perl 5. It's gotta go.
Aside from "its old", is there any particular reason why $pkg'var
should go? The only reason I saw was that $hash{a'b}
