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

[Dan Sugalski]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Damian Conway wrote:

>    > Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still
>    > in Perl 5. It's gotta go. (At least, it should.)
> 
> 
> NOOOOOOOO! 
> 
> If you take this, I won't be able to port the forthcoming Klingon.pm
> module to Perl 6!!!

And this would be a bad thing how, exactly? :)

Besides, if you can write perl in Latin, I'm sure you can manage
Klingonese...

                                        Dan