On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:27:24 -0500
Andy Bach <afb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you read the exegesis? Damian is one of the smartest guys you'll
> ever hear speak (his book "Perl Best Practices", for one, is worth
> it's weight in classrooms - er, something like that).
Perl::Critic and its script, perlcritic, follow Damian's PBP. It's well
worth your time to install them and run your scripts thru them.
> It's not that
> you're wrong or that the argument that the sigil switch isn't useful,
> it's just not going to be that way in P6. There are many (as many?)
> folks happy about this as there are folks, like you, who think we're
> losing clarity. Both have arguments and, as it happens, both
> arguments have proponents in the design of Perl committee (sometimes
> known as "@larry" ;-); only, for now, the sigil constancy crowd has
> one. Maybe in P7 they'll've regained their sigils, er, senses.
There is also a third group who want to get rid of sigils entirely. ;)
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Shawn
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