Re: poll ideas quest 2007

Thanks to XP champion Cop, I found out a thread started back in 2001 by japhy which is actually in the form of a poll but seems to have never made its way to polls. I'm reposting it here with additions from the various replies given in the original thread, some cosmetic interventions and a pair of suggestions of my own.

Perl Programmers Don't Die...

they get DESTROYed
their refcount drops to 0
they get collected
they just refer to something else
they just warn
if they're in an eval
they croak
they form a circular self-reference and so continue to exist forever, but become inaccessible
they shutdown
they are exported
if they are blessed
if they are damned
they reset $self
they go out of scope
they get undefined
they just leave the symbol table
they get dumped and hope someone remembers the reverse
they accidentally get stringified and can't be restored
they're obfuscated and B::Deparse can't handle it
someone enables strict and they have to adapt or leave
they're locals and you move away
they're deprecated for the next release
they just fade to Python
they just hibernate waiting for Perl 6

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2007 by wolfger (Deacon) on Nov 09, 2007 at 19:19 UTC
...they just watch the Voting Booth die. -- Nothing to see here. Move along.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2007 by Tux (Canon) on Oct 06, 2007 at 10:57 UTC
Hilarious. This one makes it so hard to pick one. Several apply. I miss some bitrot variant, or reincarnation after perltidy. Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply]
Re^3: poll ideas quest 2007 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 06, 2007 at 15:12 UTC
Hilarious Indeed. I was particularly amused by the last option ... no-one could possibly hibernate for that length of time. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: poll ideas quest 2007 by Cop (Initiate) on Oct 06, 2007 at 18:01 UTC
They didn't plan to die, but the winter was way much longer than expected, and they all end up dead. Seriously that's subjective observation.	[reply]