Re: RFC 71 (v1) Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

[Larry Wall]

Bart Lateur writes:
: On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:59:41 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
: 
: >D'oh! ;-)
: 
: Ah, yes. Chris Nandor's module D'oh couldn't possibly be called with
: this appropriate name any more.
: 
:       <http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=d%3A%3Aoh>
: 
: 
: OTOH, try this:
: 
:       $hash{a'b} = 1;
:       print keys %hash;
: -->
:       a::b
: 
: That shows that the current situation is not ideal, anyway.
: 
: Besides, p52p6.pl can handle the conversion.

Alternately:

    use ident qr/[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9']*/;

or some such.

Larry