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Removing indirect object notation from all examples sounds great to me! We're constantly getting people creating new code with indirect object notation because they've copy/pasted an example to start. Granted, a lot of that may be in CPAN world. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 20.05.2016 um 14:16 schrieb Abigail: > >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:32:37AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote: >> >>> I see that there is a general consensus that indirect object syntax is >>> discouraged and should be removed from documentation examples. It is >>> time >>> to revisit Kent Fredric's proposal at >>> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters/128189>? >>> >>> >> >> While I don't favour indirect objection notation (other than print), >> I'm weary of eliminating documentation about it. >> > > The proposal was to remove indirect object notation from examples, not to > remove the documentation for indirect object notation. > > -- > Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com> >Thread Previous | Thread Next