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Aristotle Pagaltzis writes: > Personally: > > • I agree /$empty/ should be deprecated. > > • I oppose changing its behaviour without a deprecation cycle. “Warning: We've found a bug in your code. Please fix it now, otherwise a future version of Perl will automatically fix it for you.” > At that point, the special case is so well circumscribed that I see > no real gain in excising [use of literal //] entirely, however > ancient-Unix-warty it may be. Would it have advantages for users of the identically spelt // defined-or operator? Specifically, are there circumstances where somebody who makes a mistake while trying to use defined-or could get an error message but at the moment gets mysterious repeat-match behaviour? Or does get an error message, but a suboptimal one? Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2Thread Previous | Thread Next