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On Tue Jul 03 13:31:50 2012, sprout wrote: > On Tue Jul 03 11:43:08 2012, pilcrow wrote: > > 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'' > > Neither of those possibilities makes me feel uneasy. > ikegami, sprout: Do you have any recommendations (warnings? doc patches?) that can help us bring this RT to resolution? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113792Thread Previous | Thread Next