Re: RFC 164 (v1) Replace =~, !~, m//, and s/// with match() and subst()

[Tom Christiansen]

>But for style, I don't see why
>the interpreter can't also check for various non-obscure syntaxes / styles.

(You mean "compiler", not interpreter.)

You have to be quite careful there: Perl is so humungous that what's
obscure to one person is well-known to the next.  For example, $#foo
is verging on the obscure for many these days, who would surely pause
at reading

    $#foo /= 2;

I don't mean to suggest that $#foo should be "preserved"; just
poiting out that in many places, "obscure" is a judgment call, and
suggest that we should avoid being too judgmental.

--tom, who is about ready to give up on this lame American habit
       of writing "judgment" and "acknowledgment" with their e's!