Am 23.11.2015 um 20:49 schrieb bulk88 via RT: > 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. > How much of that magic is fixed bytes? Because if it's just two bytes ('MZ'), you can work around it with 'MZ() if 0;' or similar. No barewords! -- Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next