Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

[Rod Adams]

Nathan Wiger wrote:
Juerd wrote:
Nathan Wiger skribis 2005-04-25 13:35 (-0700):
My point is simply that we pick one or the other, instead of
both/aliases/etc.

But TIMTOWTDI. One way may be great for writing maintainable code, while
the other is useful in oneliners (including single line method
definitions).

Then I suggest "use English" for Perl 6 too. I think you'll find that, 
like Perl 5, people always use the short forms.

Has ANYONE on this list ever done something like this?
   use English;
   if ($OSNAME =~ /MSWin32/) {
       $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH++;
       local $WARNING = 0;
       print "Windoze\n" or die "Can't print: $OS_ERROR";
   }
Not exactly a fair comparison, since it's common to not "use English" 
due to the $& issue.

I suspect that if that was not the case, it would be used more.
-- Rod Adams