Re^14: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long

It still doesn't negatively impact those 69 distributions. Perl's new err keyword is only active if you've enabled it with the feature pragma. It's still a dumb name. It just doesn't break stuff unless you ask it to.

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Re^15: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 01, 2006 at 00:10 UTC
The `feature` pragma was a workaround to enable `err` to be added to perl. I don't think its right to use the workaround that robin came up with to bypass the problems of Larry's name choice as a basis to say that that choice was a good one. The fact that such a workaround was required (and a programmer of robin's skills was needed to do it) to me is just further proof of how bad a decision it was. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^15: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 01, 2006 at 00:10 UTC

The feature pragma was a workaround to enable err to be added to perl. I don't think its right to use the workaround that robin came up with to bypass the problems of Larry's name choice as a basis to say that that choice was a good one. The fact that such a workaround was required (and a programmer of robin's skills was needed to do it) to me is just further proof of how bad a decision it was.

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