September 2010 Archives

qw() in list context deprecated

Someone decided that using `for var qw()` should be forbidden, you have to write explicitly now `for ... (qw())` instead of `qw()` beginning with 5.14. WTF

5.14 seemed to be a fine release for me, the first in a long time which is actually faster then most of the previous ones. And there were not too many languages policists.
But this new qw() deprecation warning is just pure nonsense.

`qw` used in for list where only list-context can be used should still be allowed.
Why should I be forced to update all my code to add `()` around `qw()` only because it seems to b…

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