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From:
Dan Book
Date:
December 9, 2021 21:58
Subject:
Re: "no snails"; or having signatured subs complain about @_
Message ID:
CABMkAVUE5wmYrafL4Hn=nKnyvO-8O=uL+dUGmXso313T4Q57AA@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 3:49 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:45:13 +0100
> Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 20:32:10 +0000
> > Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So by your logic, we're not allowed to change the behaviour of @_ in
> > > signature subs (the main thrust of this thread)?
> >
> > As I said in the "getting signatures out of experimental" thread, I'm
> > OK with @_ removal because I don't consider it a dramatic change.
> > Overwhelming majority of signatured subs don't use @_ and those that
> > do can be modified to stop using it.
>

This isn't going to be much consolation to users who are currently relying
on it and have not experienced the bugs.

-Dan
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