On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:59:10PM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> I like this idea. The only question is how we get things moved into
> deprecated/ ...
A lot of modules get deprecated without being abandoned. For example,
I'd deprecate Test.pm if there was a formal mechanism. A lot of the
old
In perl.perl6.stdlib, you wrote:
>Ya know... the CPAN shell has the ability to combine several
>repositories together (via CPAN::Site). Since we can't ever get rid
>of the old, deprecated versions/names of modules (ie. oraperl vs
>DBD::Oracle), we *could* put them into a different repository.
>
>
> When foo() is called as &foo with no parens and no arguments, it
> inherits @_ from it's caller.
> I can't think of any reason why this feature is useful anymore, and it
> can be a really confusing behavior, so what say we kill it in Perl 6?
It's alreday scheduled for termination.
Odd feature of perl5:
sub bar { &foo }
sub foo { print @_ }
print bar("It's Magic!");
When foo() is called as &foo with no parens and no arguments, it
inherits @_ from it's caller.
This might have been originally introduced as an efficient way to pass
huge sets of arguments
