It's causing more damage than benefit and fixing old code is easy. Plus a pragma could switch it back on.
> I assume you're referring to the sort my_comp LIST syntax
Obviously like discussed.
See also the perldoc choroba quoted, one case is just distinguished by a whitespace.
I just trained a new Perl programmer and gave him a set of orthogonal rules how to read and (de)construct the syntax, instead of relying on try-and-error ...
Which was hard enough, the perldocs already read like spaghetti code.
Now I have no idea how to justify that useless folly.
The more logical Perl is constructed, the easier it is to promote.
I'm still waiting for someone giving me a usecase were this syntax gives any benefit justifying the costs.
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