Pre-RFC: Require a warning on spaces after here-document "terminator"

I was asked to debug a weird Perl5 problem yesterday. The code in question looked roughly like this (indented 4 spaces, but otherwise unchanged): #!perl -w use strict; print

RFC 130 (v3) Transaction-enabled variables for Perl6

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RFC 135 (v1) Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.

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RFC 134 (v1) Alternative array and hash slicing

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RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

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RFC 130 (v2) Transaction-enabled variables for Perl6

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Re: Do we really need eq?

> "Ed" == Ed Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ed> Is eq needed? Can't == be used for either context? Ed>$a == 'cat' Ed> is readily distinguishable from Ed>$a == 2; Ed> so the compiler should be able to determine context. Yes, but what about: $a = '3.14'; # from reading a

Re: Do we really need eq?

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:50:20 -0600 (MDT), Nathan Torkington wrote (in part): Nat> Ed Mills writes: >> Is eq needed? Can't == be used for either context? $a == >> 'cat' is readily distinguishable from $a == 2; so the compiler >> should be able to determine context. Nat> if ($a == $b) Nat> Is th

Re: Do we really need eq?

Ed Mills writes: > Is eq needed? Can't == be used for either context? >$a == 'cat' > is readily distinguishable from >$a == 2; > so the compiler should be able to determine context. if ($a == $b) Is that string comparison or numeric comparison? Nat

Do we really need eq?

Is eq needed? Can't == be used for either context? $a == 'cat' is readily distinguishable from $a == 2; so the compiler should be able to determine context. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://