Re: why we are doing this

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:08:54PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I claim that Dave Mitchell's sig file knows exactly why we are doing this:


So that's our selling point then?

    "Ponie - for people who hate Jenga"

> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Dave Mitchell <[email protected]> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:02:54 +0100
> From: Dave Mitchell <[email protected]>
> To: Arthur Bergman <[email protected]>
> Cc: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Fatal 5.8.1 error in our $FOO = x if $FOO
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:09:13PM +0100, Arthur Bergman wrote:
> > 
> > On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 02:04  pm, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > >the second $foo refers to whatever was in scope had the 'our' 
> > >declaration
> > >not been there (so you get the 'explicit package name' warning).
> > 
> > It isn't actually a warning is it, it is a fatal error?
> 
> true.
> 
> -- 
> The perl5 internals are a complete mess. It's like Jenga - to get the
> perl5 tower taller and do something new you select a block somewhere in
> the middle, with trepidation pull it out slowly, and then carefully
> balance it somewhere new, hoping the whole edifice won't collapse as a
> result.
> 		- Nicholas Clark.
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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