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Re: strictly no indirect object syntax?

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:47:14PM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> 
> If indirect object syntax really is bad then a warning or error needs to be
> generated in the default case, because the people who currently don't read p5p
> or PBP to find out they shouldn't use this syntax are the same people who won'
> find out about some extra new flag.
I strongly disagree.
99% of the Perl programmers don't care what's considered to be "proper
coding" this week. They just want to solve their problems - and they
want their code to remain working if perl gets upgraded.
Introducing warnings for common code constructs that 999999 times out
of a 1000000 don't cause a problem at all (and where it does form a 
problem, it's a repeatable problem, unlikely to depend on runtime values,
and hence, if the code works today, it will so tomorrow) is counterproductive
for the fast majority of the coders.
Abigail

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