Branch: refs/heads/blead
Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5
Commit: d91e6867052227470c5138fecce71e3a241f4927
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/d91e6867052227470c5138fecce71e3a241f4927
Author: Lukas Mai <[email protected]>
Date: 2024-09-08 (Sun, 08 Sep 2024)
Changed paths:
M pod/perlvar.pod
Log Message:
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perlvar: remove indirect object syntax
- remove the `method HANDLE EXPR` example
- mention that an explicit `use IO::Handle` has not been required since
perl v5.14 (that was 13 years ago)
- remove the advice to prefer built-in variables over IO::Handle methods
because:
- `STDOUT->autoflush(1);` is about 200x more readable than `$|++;` or
similar nonsense
- loading IO::Handle isn't actually that expensive (and if it is, we
should figure out how to speed up `$fh->autoflush` in core, not
discourage programmers from using it)
- the performance advice is from 1999 and hasn't been updated since
(commits 14218588221b, 19799a22062e)
- as far as I can tell, this advice is mostly Tom Christiansen's
personal opinion and not the general consensus of the Perl community
- move a comma from one paragraph to the next (technically unrelated,
but it's in the general vicinity of the preceding changes)
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