Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[Jeremy Howard]

Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification in your intentions, but isn't _any_ bareword
is
> converted to a string, unless it is in some particular context where a
bareword is
> meaningful (such as filehandle)?  So that seems to be nothing unique to
=>.  You
> could just as well say
>
>       bareword, $whatever
>
> and get the same effect in perl5!
>
Except that that doesn't work under 'use strict', whereas => does. Also,
under '-w' the ',' form gives an 'Unquoted string' warning. So the operators
really are subtly different.