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2009/7/19 Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans@googlemail.com>: > 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. Hear hear. Im fully in favour of losing the apostrophe notation. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next