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Postings from February 2000
Nathan Torkington writes: : 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. That's more or less what I was saying, only in a more roundabout fashion. Larry