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Re: [perl #80628] [PATCH] __SUB__

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Eric Brine
Date:
December 13, 2010 09:31
Subject:
Re: [perl #80628] [PATCH] __SUB__
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:

> > > It's more like SUPER than __FILE__ in a sense. Maybe something without
> > > dashes would be more appropriate.
> >
>
> I don't think so. While "SUB" is different from "sub", I'm not very keen
> to have two keywords that only differ in case. And anything else without
> underscores has the same problem as any other new keyword: possible
> clashes.
>

Noone suggested it should be "SUB".  I was thinking of "THIS_SUB". Someone
else also came up with that name, so I didn't mention it.

- Eric
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