Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Fink
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: > >>I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of >>one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not >>in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught

Another nice to have: make # less ambiguous

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Fink
On my wishlist is forbidding the use of # just about anywhere but as a comment starter and in strings or regular expressions. Not a big deal, but it would make it easier to write 90% correct perl syntax parsers. It's a pain dealing with q#not a comment# and m#still not# and s(even)#this#. Espe

Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

2001-07-24 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:47:43 -0700 (PDT), Dave Storrs wrote: >I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of >one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not >in the module itself. Putting it in instantly caught several annoying >bugs that I'd