Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:07:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> > At 08:03 PM 8/16/00 +0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > >Perl should provide a mechanism to have common code autoloaded from a
> > >file.
> >
> > Please, no. It's the ultimate scary action-at-a-distance.
>
> If the programmer *wants* action-at-a-distance, Perl has never stood
> in the way.
With /etc/perlrc, this should be rephrased as "if *a* programmer wants
action-at-a-distance, Perl will never stand in the way". This is
scary. Until, that is, we add the inevitable "-." flag to avoid
loading rc files, and then all scripts will start with "#!perl -w.".
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