On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger 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.
Perl5 is my first Perl.
I use study on occasion.
> > ?pattern? # one-time match
> > split ?pat? # implicit split to @_
Which is currently labeled as deprecated, I believe. Most things
labeled (or treated, such as pre-pod embedded docstrings) as
deprecated should/could be removed.
> > What's everyone's feeling on removing these from perl6? How often are
> > they used?
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Bryan C. Warnock
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