>So what's left?
>
> print STDERR "Foo";
>
>We have a proposal to turn STDERR into $STDERR, and it looks likely it'll go
>through.
It is? I certainly hope not. It makes as much sense to
do that as to force a dollar sign on subroutines.
sub $foo { ... }
or
sub 'foo' { ... }
Heck, maybe everyone should be forced to write
*foo = sub { ... };
> $time = time;
> print;
>If use strict 'subs' is in effect you're guaranteed these are subroutine
>calls, or compile-time errors. If it isn't you get a nice little warning.
>Perhaps the stringification should be removed entirely, and the syntax
>always be a subroutine call.
Eek, that's what I want to kill. I want you to HAVE to
write that as
$time = time();
with the parens. The lack of parens is the root of MANY
an evil in perl.
--tom
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