This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Remove "In string @ must be \@" fatal error =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Aug 2000 Last-Modified: 16 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 105 Version: 2 Status: Frozen =head1 ABSTRACT Currently, if you write: $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; You get a B<fatal> error: In string, @wiger now must be written as \@wiger This should be removed altogether in Perl 6. =head1 DESCRIPTION This is something that was put in to catch Perl 4 to Perl 5 migration. Perl 6 shouldn't need it, and should just assume that "@wiger" is an array, even if it's unitialized. This is what it does for all the other data types. As Randal noted, this whole RFC is probably better phrased as: array interpolation should work exactly like scalar interpolation And I agree. =head1 MIGRATION People that are relying on this to catch sloppy coding should be beaten. =head1 IMPLEMENTATION Remove the error altogether. Perl 5's been out for years. =head1 REFERENCES http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-07/msg02150.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02231.html
