I personally see the language as being both precise and correct. The word "our" was reserved by Perl (though at that point not yet used) and using that reserved word as a bareword is deprecated. Which is exactly what it said.

I respectfully (though strongly) disagree. And I do respect your contribution above and many others of yours. So please try to not let the strength of my disagreement come across as a criticism of you.

The use of "our" is not depricated (as the message claimed). The use of "our" as a bareword is depricated. Other uses of "our" are being encouraged, though just not yet. Consider the two error messages: 

Use of %s is deprecated
Use of reserved word """"%s"""" is deprecated

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They mean nearly the opposite (a feature is being added vs. a feature is going away), but sound nearly identical (in fact, you could correctly substitute the second for the first in most cases since the deprecated feature is usually still a reserved word!). The important parts of the latter (that it is being reserved for future use and that your use of it is being parsed as a bareword) are omitted. The term "reserved word" strongly implies that Perl considers "our" to be a keyword, while the important fact is that it isn't yet.

That error message is (only slightly) incorrect. But the error message is very, very misleading. Also, the message is so simple and easy to understand (though incorrectly) that I can't fault someone (much) for not thinking to go read perldiag.pod to see if, perhaps, the message actually means nearly the opposite of what it says.

Finally, the original use of "our" as a bareword was not based on a lack of knowledge of the fact that using all-lowercase barewords is a bad idea. It was based on the knowledge that "our" is a keyword in Perl, and a lack of knowledge of the fact that the version of Perl being used wasn't the a version that supported "our".

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to RE: RE (5): Should I use $ and $# ? by tye
in thread Should I use $ and $# ? by Guildenstern

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