RFC 71 (v2) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

[email protected] (Perl6 RFC Librarian) 16 Sep 2000 03:20:23 -0000

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=head1 TITLE

Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

=head1 VERSION

   Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[email protected]>
   Date: 08 Aug 2000
   Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
   Mailing List: [email protected]
   Number: 71
   Version: 2
   Status: Frozen

=head1 ABSTRACT

Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still
in Perl 5. It's gotta go.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

See above.

=head1 IMPLEMENTATION

See above.

=head1 NOTES ON FREEZE

Damian worried that this would mean Klingon.pm would no longer be
portable to Perl 6. He failed to convince other people on the list that
this was actually a bad thing. ;-) (kidding!!)

=head1 REFERENCES

Camel-3 p. 60 reminded me of this.