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From:
Brad Baxter
Date:
April 5, 2010 06:22
Subject:
Re: RFC: Perl manual pages -- update to follow the perlstyle.pod guidelines
Message ID:
o2lf65b37ea1004050622tacc492egd17c3b645816f35a@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:44 AM, 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 "::">

Excuse me -- "unfortunate"?  If you really think that, then I
might suggest that you aren't the person I would want to be
rewriting Perl's documentation.


>    A side note: it is also interesting to remember how the SQL came to
>    be. One of the oldest "programming languages" and recall the design
>    decisions behind it.

You must be young.  :-)


One question: will you be writing tests for all of these changes?
I, for one, would not trust my eyes to verify that code is correct.

-- 
Brad

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