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On Fri Jun 22 14:59:35 2012, ikegami@adaelis.com wrote:
> On Fri Jun 22 13:08:13 2012, sprout wrote:
> > On Fri Jun 22 12:57:15 2012, ikegami@adaelis.com wrote:
> > > $ perl -E'"abc" =~ /(b)/; say "@+"'
> > > 2 2
> > >
> > > $ perl -E'@_ = qw( a b c ); say "@_"'
> > > a b c
> > >
> > > $ perl -E'@. = qw( a b c ); say "@."'
> > > @.
> > >
> > > $ perl -E'@. = qw( a b c ); say "@{.}"'
> > > a b c
> > >
> > > What's up with #3?
> >
> > toke.c special-cases certain punct vars. Without thinking about this in
> > detail, my gut feeling is that allowing "@." will open up a can of
worms.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Are you saying this is a documentation bug?
No, but the repercussions of that sort of change worry me. Maybe I just
need to think it through more.
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Father Chrysostomos
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