Sigh. Yeah. Too bad. Its still a crappy name, even if it does look cute in a couple of contexts.

I had a quick look through my code for defined, and very few of the uses were from function returns (or is almost always satisfactory for that case). Instead the majority were stuff like this: 

 $x = $default 
    unless defined $x;

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Since i doubt im unusual in this respect quite frankly I think Larry made the wrong call on this. And given that 69 distributions (including iirc DBI) use 'err' I think this is just bad plan. Why should Perl6's poor choice of a name have to negatively impact 69 CPAN distributions distributions of Perl5 code? IMO for no reason other than whimsy.

And if I understand this correctly (its quite possible I dont), the only reason 5.8 hasn't had the 'dor' patch (funny how its called that) is because of this potential breakage. So thousands of programmers have been unable to use something that would go a long way to making things easier because Larry decided one day that 'err' sounded like a slurred 'or' and decided that in Perl6 this is what it would be called. And of course Perl5 can't name it 'dor' because that would contradict Perl6.

Which just leaves me going 'ARGHHHHH!'

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$world=~s/war/peace/g

In reply to Re^13: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long by demerphq
in thread Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long by dragonchild

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