[perl #131392] [@LARRY] Remove magic $/ shortcuts %() and @() <[email protected]>

[email protected] ("Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT") Sat, 23 Jun 2018 04:48:23 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.compiler
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Further discussion on https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/1946

On 2017-05-28 21:20:08, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2017 18:18:14 -0700, raiph wrote:
> > If there hasn't been significant adoption of these tokens in extant
> > code then I'd personally +1 deprecation of them in v6.d in favor of
> > `%$/` and `@$/`.
>
> +1. Even knowing $() was special, it didn't occur to me %() and @()
> could be special too. While $() saves some typing, the %() vs %$/ are
> no win IMO.
>
> I listed removal as a proposal in 6.d doc:
> https://github.com/perl6/specs/blob/master/v6d.pod
>
> Renaming this ticket to @LARRY/6.d RFC