in reply to Re: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
in thread What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
If CRLF becomes a potential statement terminator, then breaking a single statement across multiple lines not only becomes a minefield of "will this be treated as one or multiple statements?", but the answer to that question may change depending on where in the statement the line breaks are inserted!
If implemented, this change would make a mockery of any claims that Perl 7 will just be "Perl 5 with different defaults", as well as any expectations that it could be used to run "clean" (by some definition) Perl 5 code without modification.
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Re^3: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
by likbez (Sexton) on Sep 10, 2020 at 21:02 UTC | |
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Sep 11, 2020 at 07:55 UTC | |
by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 11, 2020 at 07:00 UTC | |
by haj (Vicar) on Sep 12, 2020 at 10:26 UTC | |
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