develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from March 2017

Re: The tricky issue of do()

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Kent Fredric
Date:
March 30, 2017 08:57
Subject:
Re: The tricky issue of do()
Message ID:
CAATnKFCLBk6arQRr=LB7vwFWby0Zbq3CMG7uEpgQerNRLZmgGg@mail.gmail.com
On 30 March 2017 at 21:45, Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would definitely save a lot of headache and it's just a string
> change. (Famous last words.)


Although I'm in favour of the change in the direction of clarity, I
should point out that "its just a string" change happened once with
Carp. Somebody added a "." to the strings and created a respectable
amount of breakage :)

( Argument presented not as opposition, just as feedback to help
calibrate future rationalisations around strings  )

-- 
Kent

KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
Thread Previous | Thread Next

nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About