Re: [PATCH] perlfaq4: How can I expand variables in text strings?

Casey West <[email protected]> writes:

> I think it should not mention eval() either. This would encourage use
> of a terrible idea. It's neat, yes, but terrible. The FAQ entry is
> fine as is.

The FAQ workers mailing list is not the place for this sort of debate.

We had've had the debate over in comp.lang.perl.* many times.  The "this
would encourage use of a terrible idea" argument has been put forward
and rebutted repeatedly.

Last time the debate raged over there, pretty much everyone, including
brian d foy, the then FAQ maintainer, was in agreement that this FAQ
entry was seriously flawed and needed a re-write so that it actually
gave the honest answer the question.

I agreed to do the re-write it and submit it the revised version.
I've put a lot of effort into this now but I'm now faced with all the
same arguments over again here.

But to you, I guess, I look like a lone voice rather than the voice of
concensus.

I'm going back to comp.lang.perl.* and get a petition together.

> "In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter."
>  --In a Vienna hotel

"If you cannot leave your room by the door, expose yourself in the
window"
  -- In a Lapland hotel

(I may not have got the wording quite right).