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Hm. Interesting idea. What else would you include?

How about disabling the use of @ARGV as the implicit target of push, pop, shift, unshift (other?) outside of a sub?

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Re^5: More intelligent warning?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 05, 2010 at 18:33 UTC

    I can't believe I find myself writing this, but I use that behavior frequently and deliberately.

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      An example? In one of your modules perhaps?

      And do you silence the warning?

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        I used this today, in fact:

        die "$0: missing source file\n" unless @ARGV;
my $infile = shift;

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        This was a small filter program, not a module.

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Re^5: More intelligent warning?
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 06, 2010 at 01:26 UTC
    e.g. for the flip-flop operator literal numbers mean line numbers, that hinders using flip-flop for other purposes than parsing files.

    UPDATE: And IMHO the scalar comma operator produces more unwanted results than benefits.

    In general, I think the features dropped in Perl6 are a good starting point for more ideas.

    Cheers Rolf

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