Re^2: Global symbol requires explicit package name

I'm a dev with serious background in Ja.. some other language and I was trying to understand a small program I found written in perl. Founding this kind of comment was like a signal to run away from Perl as fast and far as possible. Hopefully there are some other comments a bit friendler...

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Re^3: Global symbol requires explicit package name by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 18, 2012 at 14:32 UTC
Well I'm glad you're keeping things in perspective, judging a language based on one comment for which you have no context. I'm sure there are no posts relating to Java (or known trolls on Java forums) which could be taken out of context at all.	[reply]
Re^3: Global symbol requires explicit package name by Jenda (Abbot) on Jul 18, 2012 at 21:24 UTC
You are missing context! If this was a remark to someone who just came to the site and was genuinely new to the language, it would definitely be way too harsh, but this was not the case. Win had been here since 2003 and well ... at times had been rather annoying. Now that wording of that error message is rather ... erm ... unfortunate, but after several years of programming in Perl ... Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]