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Re: [perl #119897] glob in threads is broken in perl5.18

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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
September 24, 2013 19:17
Subject:
Re: [perl #119897] glob in threads is broken in perl5.18
Message ID:
CALJW-qGjouCp-opcNzdEiKTPAKUxbff4fW15PXjEVskAxfeLuQ@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, please! You can easily get the old behavior of glob "foo bar" with
> glob("foo"), glob("bar").
>

Why break backwards compatibility just to save yourself from escaping
spaces when you must already escape other characters such as "{"?

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