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From:
Todd Rinaldo
Date:
June 30, 2020 06:32
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
FD3E6219-A495-40A0-A7B1-9326131C1D00@cpanel.net


> On Jun 28, 2020, at 7:33 AM, Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 03:39:52 -0500, Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net> said:
> 
>>> On Jun 28, 2020, at 2:38 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If `try` syntax becomes default - probably not in 7 but maybe in 8 -
>>> then how is perltidy going to know how to properly format and indent
>>> this, and all the other exciting syntax we hope to have in place by 8?
>>> 
> 
>> Easily. They check $].
> 
> Hi Todd,
> 
> this does not work. For example, see here is a line of perl code:
> 
>  print "Hello, Rinaldo";
> 
> So what is $] in this line and how do you find out? If you simply run
> it, you make a decision, with which interpreter you start it. And hereby
> you influence the outcome for $]. So: the value of $] is a result of
> your decision, not something intrinsic to the code.
> 
> -- 
> andreas

My suggestion was that the version of perl critic runs under should dictate how it behaves. 
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