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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
April 3, 2010 01:17
Subject:
Re: RFC: Perl manual pages -- update to follow the perlstyle.pod guidelines
Message ID:
t2sb77c1dce1004030116t819aed88pe04ffd2caea36363@mail.gmail.com
On 3 April 2010 09:44, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
> It's unfortunate that a language has all kinds of
>
>    @
>    $
>    %
>    ' <as an old style package level var accessor, before the days of "::">
>
> Where really, many of the langaues don't need ones for variables. That
> must have been compiler design decisions (optiomization?) at the time of
> past.

Certainly not. I really don't see Larry making language design
decisions based on compiler implementation. That's so unlike him.

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