[perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)"

On Fri Nov 08 04:28:15 2013, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> Heck, I don't even mind one last, "Wait, I have a
> new
> objection!"  I just object to living in a room with twenty swords
> dangling over
> me.

I just want to point out that Tom Christiansen complained the last time this was brought up, because he had many scripts still using it, as at one point it had been the only way to call subs.

Also, do we want do foo() to have its logical behaviour of passing the return value of foo to do-file?  Or should it be a syntax error?

(The latter is the type of question we should always ask when removing a feature.)

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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• [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
• Re: [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Vincent Pit
• Re: [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by H.Merijn Brand
• [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Ricardo Signes
• [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Ricardo Signes
• Re: [perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)" by Father Chrysostomos