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On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 05:51:46PM -0800, "Larry Wall" wrote:
> Mark Mielke writes:
> : Actually this specifically refers to code that has passed in front of
> : my eyes in the last week which is littered with "main'" all over. It
> : is QUITE annoying to read, especially when the variables is used in
> : quotes itself.
> Indeed, that's why we changed it. In retrospect, I'm much happier with
> having borrowed Ada's => notation than its attribute notation.
I do like the => a great deal... :-) Evolution is a wonderful beast
when it comes to programming languages.
> I could have sworn we deprecated the ' delimiter, but maybe only in the
> docs. It would appear that -w doesn't elicit a warning. I suspect it
> oughta, these days. Cute package names like Santa's::Helpers
> notwithstanding.
> Larry
I thought it was deprecated too... but this horrendous code that I have
been having to explain to co-workers uses it on every second line or
something... sheesh... but most of the nastiness is not actually perl's
fault I guess... but whoever coded it...
Haha... has anybody named a package like "Santa's::Helpers" before?
(That possibility having never crossed my mind)
mark
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