in reply to Re: Named array indices (packages)
in thread Named array indices

Note that a C' prefix is a horrible idea:
You probably missed (as did I) the second paragraph in perlmod:
The old package delimiter was a single quote, but double colon is now the preferred delimiter...

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Re^3: Named array indices (C')
by tye (Sage) on Aug 06, 2010 at 15:02 UTC

    Uh, no. A C:: prefix is equivalently horrible (of course). That was the point. Perhaps you missed the "Boom!" comment? Or did you not understand the significance of it?

    - tye        

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      Oh, the latter.
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