TITLE

Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die

VERSION

  Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <nate@wiger.org>
  Date: 8 Aug 2000
  Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
  Mailing List: perl6-language@perl.org
  Number: 71
  Version: 2
  Status: Frozen

ABSTRACT

Perl used to use $pkg'var instead of the modern $pkg::var. This is still in Perl 5. It's gotta go.

DESCRIPTION

See above.

IMPLEMENTATION

See above.

NOTES ON FREEZE

Damian worried that this would mean Klingon.pm would no longer be portable to Perl 6. He failed to convince other people on the list that this was actually a bad thing. ;-) (kidding!!)

REFERENCES

Camel-3 p. 60 reminded me of this.