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Re^5: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7by LanX (Saint) |
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The "original sin" was backwards compatibility to Perl 4, which had no my or strict . Back in the time piggybacking private variables had huge advantages, but it led to paradoxes, complexity and mounting technical debt.
Cheers Rolf
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