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On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:09 PM Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>
wrote:
> Porters,
>
> Since at least 2009 <http://markmail.org/message/gaux5xx5jlop3vmk>, we
> have been talking, once in a while, about deprecating the use of
> \N{APOSTROPHE} as a package separator, Ada style.
>
> The following two expressions are equivalent:
>
> $x::y::z
>
> $x'y'z
>
>
> This mostly goes unnoticed, but the confusion sometimes seeps in at:
>
> print "This is $user's problem to deal with."
>
> …which attempts to interpolate $user::s
>
> This bites experts and new users alike, and while the apostrophe *might*
> be aesthetically pleasing as a package separator, that battle has basically
> been lost.
>
> I think the next course of action is to see what on CPAN would really
> break if the old package separator was removed. I predict "very nearly
> nothing." Then, to add a deprecation warning for when it is used, with a
> drop dead date. That is, assuming that we don't realize there's some
> reason we really ought not to do this.
>
> This is a low-value win, but I think it's a win. Shall we carry on to RFC
> this?
>
+1 The problems it causes in interpolation far exceed any possible utility,
even if I thought it looked nice (I don't).
-Dan
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