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On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:07 AM Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/21 11:08 PM, Ricardo Signes 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
>
>
> while i totally agree with this, there are some modules with the name d'oh
> in them!
>
> use D <https://metacpan.org/pod/D>'oh 'i_hate_this_program';
> D'oh::stderr('/tmp/stderr'); # redirect all stderr to /tmp/stderr
>
>
> D'oh::Year <https://metacpan.org/pod/D'oh::Year> - Catch stupid mistakes
> when mucking with years, like Y2K bugs
>
>
> and both seem to do something real and are not in acme::
>
Test::More::isn't is another example of this; but in both cases a
slightly less cute version is perfectly usable without this feature, so I
don't find it a compelling reason against the downsides.
-Dan
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