perl6storm #0010: kill all defaults

2000-09-26 Thread Nicola Meade

Yes,  Phil, I mean things like abs() meaning abs($_) and
localtime() meaning localtime(time).
Actually, combined with the paren requirement thingie, it means
localtime(time()), and localtime
has to be written localtime().   These are two different suggestions,
though.

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perl6storm #0010: kill all defaults

2000-09-23 Thread Philip Newton

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:

 =item perl6storm #0010
 
 Allow a way to kill *all* defaults at compile time.  Or warn about them.
 
 no defaults;
 use defaults 'none';
 use warnings 'defaults';
 
 this is for anal python folks.

What are defaults, in this context? Things like abs taking $_ if no
variable is specified? Or localtime taking time()? Or what?

Cheers,
Philip
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