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  • Commented on Scalar Context: Lists Versus Arrays
    Well written! Thanks....
  • Commented on The Witch and the Witch-hunt
    There was A truth-seeking process that was haphazard at best, in ways that are obvious to anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge of what happened An expeditionary power-grab despite explicit requests not to do so A punishment that...
  • Commented on Proposal for Perl Foundation Memberships
    I agree. To not have memberships is to leave money on the table. Certainly Perl could do SOMETHING helpful with the money. Plus people want to be involved if only to that extent. Regular financial contributions (membership dues) are literally...
  • Commented on Perl dying? Well now I don't care
    Your anger, frustration and fatigue makes sense to me. I'm so sorry to hear about your experience, and very glad you shared it in such detail, which took a good deal of your time and represents yet another effort you've...
  • Commented on Adventures in Perl
    Welcome back! Perl, tools for Perl, and the Perl community have become even better over the last 10 years. Please share whatever surprising chocolates (or disappointments) you encounter. Your perspective will be valuable....
  • Commented on Please not yet-another-oo-system, let's support frameworks
    We're in agreement about the wisdom of prohibiting the thorny parts of the language in order to enable the reliable parsing that's needed for IDEs (such as refactoring) that would be enforced by Sawyer X's Guacamole module. You also called...
  • Commented on Please not yet-another-oo-system, let's support frameworks
    Dean -- curious to know whether you think standard perl would be better if renamed to be higherstandard perl. If I'm understanding it correctly, the idea is to prevent the developer from using certain Perl syntax that is accepted by...
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