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in thread A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7

I agree with the origins; I just wish that Perl had rolled a no strict; into -e rather than providing no constraint on variables in proper scripts.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^5: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 25, 2020 at 17:06 UTC
    The "original sin" was backwards compatibility to Perl 4, which had no my or strict .

    Back in the time piggybacking private variables had huge advantages, but it led to paradoxes, complexity and mounting technical debt.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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