Personally, I don't think I've ever used any of these, but I really
don't want to speak for everyone.
Maybe an RFC "Functions and Variables to Remove in Perl 6" ?
-Nate
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>
> Here in my pre-caffiene morning trance it occurs to me that a few of
> the "fringe" features of perl should be removed from the langauge.
> Here's a few things that I would venture to say that none of the
> "perl5 is my first perl" people have probably ever actually used.
>
> reset # How often do you clear variables wholesale?
> dump
> study # never been a win for me.
> ?pattern? # one-time match
> split ?pat? # implicit split to @_
>
> What's everyone's feeling on removing these from perl6? How often are
> they used?
>
> -Scott
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