Re: RFC 277 (v1) Eliminate unquoted barewords from Perl entirely

[Ken Fox]

Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Your point is assuming that STDERR retains its weirdness, and does not
> become a simple scalar object ...

sub STDERR () { $STDERR }

or am I missing something?

> Making STDERR into $STDERR is all hinged on fast vtable stuff in core ...

Absolutely false. $STDERR does not depend on vtables in any conceivable way.

[Yeah, this is a response to a really old post, but we shouldn't let a
 mythology of vtables develop.]

- Ken