On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:16:43 +0100, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>Try thinking of it this way: it's only a bareword if
>it would make use strict whinge at you.
So every bareword would be recognized as a sub. That, is nice. For
starters, Perl parsers can more easily recognize a sub name, without a
need of having loaded every use'd module.
And, hasn't anybody else ever been wondering about things like:
tie %hash, 'Any_DBMFile', $filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR;
and have it bark back at you that:
O_SVWST isn't numeric
? It turns out that Fcntl wasn't loaded, and the flags were treated as
literal strings. Ugh.
Would that not make "strict subs" always in effect?
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And this appears in every single one of TomC's messages. Tom, can you at
least put a "-- " line after your message, so that this may
automatically bne recognized as a footer? I think some people would
appreciate that. We could even filter it out... ;-)
--
Bart.
