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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au>wrote: > Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > Name "name::s" used only once: possible typo at - line 3. > > Use of uninitialized value $name::s in concatenation (.) or string at - > line 3. > > > > Its interesting. In my experience I've never seen a newbie do that... or > done > > it myself either. Have you? > > All the time, both for myself personally, and for newbies, and working with > newbies is my job. > > I agree with Yves that its usage in strings at least should be considered > for deprecation. Despite me having code written in Klingon, I'd be happy > to > see it gone entirely. I think that creating yet another special case (not allowed in strings, allowed in other contexts) is a mistake. I would much rather just kill it altogether. I also don't buy the "we can't change the code - even a simplifying change could risk introducing new bugs" argument. By that reasoning, we'll never change anything ever again - and I also really don't like the thought that there are parts of the codebase that we're afraid to change. BenThread Previous | Thread Next