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Postings from February 2000
Larry Wall writes: > : use 8bit; > : > : Make this parse. > > Offhand, I can't think of any reason not to, other than that people I hate this practice of making special cases in the parser for things that the Perl developers want. use Module (); vs use Module; isn't a distinction that any user code can draw. A module whose name would be invalid but which is special-cased into the parser because p5p got a woody for the name just ticks me off. If this is so useful, everyone should have access to it. If everyone can't do it, then don't do it. Nat (all opinions, no code today)