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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote: > +0.5 > > I must say I don't like the tradeoff of making users pound their shift > keys in perpetuity to produce /UL instead of /ul to maintain backwards > compatibility with an unlikely-to-occur bit of syntax. > > Has anyone done tests to find out if cases like C</foo/lt "bar"> > actually occur in the wild (e.g. on CPAN). Or is this just a runaway > backwards compat hypothetical? I think it's a hypothetical. As I said originally, I'm 100% happy to declare run-on's to be a syntax error, declare the parser to have a bug for not detecting it to date, break whatever corner cases we happen to break, and just go straight to /l and /u for modifiers. That didn't seem to get a lot of traction and Jesse seemed to indicate he'd prefer that kind of breakage to have lexical scope using a feature. Given the extra complexity of a "temporary" feature, I think uppercase /L and /U (with the option of lower case synonyms in 5.16) is a reasonable compromise. -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next