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On Mon Nov 23 06:53:30 2015, ed wrote: > Yes, by 'barewords' I meant to say the treatment of unquoted > identifiers as strings, in cases where "use strict 'subs'" would give > an error. That is not the case for STDERR. > > Barewords will give a warning "clash with future reserved word", but > not if they have characters outside [a-z]. > > My question is first, whether anyone is still using this feature (I > have never come across code that uses it outside of golfing and > poetry, but I accept that different programmers have different > styles), and if the answer to the first question is "no", whether it > might be time to officially deprecate this feature. https://metacpan.org/release/BULKDD/Acme-Win32-PEPM-0.02 uses them to pack .pm files. I've attached a sample packed .pm. -- bulk88 ~ bulk88 at hotmail.com --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126715Thread Previous | Thread Next