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On Fri Jun 22 17:51:37 2012, sprout wrote: > 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: .... > > > 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. How about adding ``(W deprecated, ambiguous) Reserved variable %s will someday interpolate'' to 5.16.x whenever an unused punct variable plausibly should have interpolated? If the behavior is later correcte^Wchanged so that unused, reserved variables do interpolate, it'd be charitable to replace that with a new warning: ``(W ambiguous) Possible unintended interpolation of reserved variable %s'' --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113792Thread Previous | Thread Next