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Re: [perl #113792] Unused punctuation variables don't interpolate

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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
June 22, 2012 13:45
Subject:
Re: [perl #113792] Unused punctuation variables don't interpolate
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CALJW-qEdh6m6eRWuB8_c6hO4TFp9X8UGnhe8+ZzKvi8U8vG6Zw@mail.gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT <
perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:

> Also, there may be people wholly unintentionally relying on this.  I
> know many times I’ve forgotten to escape my @’s and wondered why they
> were disappearing.
>

That's an argument for a warning, seems to me. ("Possible unintended
interpolation of reserved punctuation variable")

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