You keep saying that the split function needs fixing, but I don't see why. During the entire time that I have been using Perl, never have I encountered one situation that I was not able to use the split function to split anything. So instead of spreading this nonsense about how broken things are in your opinion, maybe you can ask questions regards the issue you are trying to solve instead. You can ask any question by providing some example with something that you are trying to accomplish and people here will most happily try to provide you with some answers.

Now you mention Python: First of all it seems that there are actually two split functions: split and re.split. Second of all the prototype of the latter function is almost exactly the same as in Perl: re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0). There is no use of a dictionary with named arguments, so what are you actually saying? As a matter of fact there is one more argument as in Perl, but in Perl this flag is nicely incorporated in the regular expression. Third, Python introduces many other functions as re.findall to make the language more versatile.

So, I ask you, what is it exactly that Guido has fixed?

In reply to Re^8: More comprehensive style guide for Perl docs than perlpodstyle? by Veltro
in thread More comprehensive style guide for Perl docs than perlpodstyle? by nysus

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