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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:42:11PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > 2009/7/16 George Greer <perl@greerga.m-l.org>: > > Can we finally get rid of $site'var rather than $site::var? > > > > Tried to print a variable in a string today as a possessive and remembered > > that little gotcha. > > This is not deprecated. I don't see a reason to deprecate it: it > doesn't stand in the way of a bug fix. Also, I still regularly see it > in the wild (unfortunately...). Moreover, that would break D'oh ! > http://search.cpan.org/dist/D-oh/ But if anyone wants to find out what it takes, and what it breaks, please go ahead. 0: Fork http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git 1: figure out all the places where "'" is implemented (not sure if it's just in gv.c) 2: for now make it a fatal warning 3: see which, if any core regression tests fail, and then fix them 4: see whether anything interesting on CPAN breaks. (Well, other than D'oh, Acme::Don't and Acme::Isn't) 5: see whether it breaks GHC. :-) Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next