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. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next