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Tom Christiansen
Date:
February 1, 2012 04:15
Subject:
Re: How we deprecate (was Re: Deprecating '\w {' in v5.16)
Message ID:
26363.1328098519@chthon
Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote
   on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:03:05 GMT: 

> That's a good point which I'd not thought of. Because patterns weren't
> first-class (and sort of still aren't quite), it's normal to pass them as
> strings. 

As evidenced by the split() function, which we still can't prototype.  

--tom
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