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On 14 May 2017 at 00:33, Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
> index 06f68311fb..c8dc2b81a3 100644
> --- a/pod/perldelta.pod
> +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
> @@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ C<%{^CAPTURE}> is the equivalent to C<%+> (ie named captures)
>
> C<%{^CAPTURE_ALL}> is the equivalent to C<%-> (ie all named captures).
>
> + ^ This really needs a note about what this is actually for. Is it
> + just so you can get an array of all matched params? Why would you
> + use a more verbose synonym like %{^CAPTURE} instead of %+ in your
> + code?
> +
Same reason, that people use, or dont use, English.pm. Whenever I have
added a new punctuation var I have also added a long form caret name.
(As that way it is usable without use English without collisions as
caret identifiers are reserved for Perl.) I was under the impression
that this was more or less required (albeit by tradition not
documentation). So to me this is just completeness/conformance to
established expectation.
I mean, we get a lot of flack about line noise you know?
FWIW, I don't recall if that was actually new, or if it existed from
the beginning but was not properly documented. I suspect the latter.
Yves
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