Re^2: stuck with a \N{CHAR NAME} problem

Well, *I* would want Perl to accept this. Either by just DWIM (heh, if it can figure out what is wanted when giving the error message, why not just f*cking do it? If I wanted Pythonesque behaviour, I would have run python), or by just not doing anything special.

Preferably the former.

IMO, it's ok for a language to say "look buddy, I do not know what you mean here". But languages that say "oh, I know exactly what you mean, but I'm not going to do it because you didn't use some magic incantation" have no business to exists outside fora like the hates-software mailing list.

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Re^3: stuck with a \N{CHAR NAME} problem by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on May 27, 2011 at 10:26 UTC
Is there another language really that DWIM? You know, I could do with a good reason to switch to part-time work ;) One world, one people	[reply]