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[perl #118511] Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated - make a hard error

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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
June 27, 2013 20:13
Subject:
[perl #118511] Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated - make a hard error
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-2552-1372364004-1258.118511-15-0@perl.org
On Wed Jun 26 16:32:27 2013, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> * Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2013-06-
> 17T09:33:08]
> > I would like to see that *un*deprecated.  I see no reason why that
> > syntax should cause any problems.  It doesn’t make anything less
> > ambiguous to remove it.  (On top of that, it looks nice!)
> 
> I slept on this for a few nights, because you may well be correct that
> it
> introduces no syntactical ambiguity, and because I do generally
> believe that 𝑑𝑒
> 𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑠 π‘›π‘œπ‘› 𝑒𝑠𝑑 π‘‘π‘–π‘ π‘π‘’π‘‘π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘π‘’π‘š... but no.  I
think it's just the sort of
> facepalmingly "straightforward" syntax that has no real value but to
> further
> confuse the uninitiated.  Thirty-two thousand eight hundred and nine
> shibboleths are enough.  We can do without restoring one more.

In that case I have rerejected ticket #66686.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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