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On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:00:03 -0400, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2015, at 07:33, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > > > > * Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> [2015-06-05T06:13:08] > >> * Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> [2015-06-03 15:20]: > >>> (Meanwhile, "no warnings;" and "no strict;" should act on 'all', of > >>> course.) > >> > >> How is it sane for `use foo` and `no foo` to not be symmetrical? > > > > "Bring me sandwiches." <-- You don't care what kind you get. > > > > "Bring me tuna fish sandwiches." <-- Only one kind. "Bring me all sandwiches you have, except those with seafood" > > "Bring me every kind of sandwich you can imagine." > > > > "No more sandwiches, please." <-- stops any of the above > > If I understand this correctly, you also don't care what kind of > sandwiches you get in the "Bring me every kind of sandwich you can > imagine" case. Whatever they are, bring them on. > > The "Bring me sandwiches" case seems like a "makes life more > interesting" version of "Bring me every kind". You'll never know > which kinds you won't get until you realize you didn't get them. > > The only people who will spin the Wheel of Sandwiches are either > looking for excitement or don't really understand the Wheel of > Sandwiches. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next