This week in PSC (176) | 2025-01-16

Just Graham and Philippe this time.

  • We talked a bit about PPC 0025 (Perl version), but didn’t say anything new
  • Regarding PPC 0030 (new operators) vs PPC 0031 (flags on operators), we continue to think that flags on operators bring more confusion than value (PSC #168). Perl is an operator-rich language, so adding new operators when needed sounds right.
  • As for the discussion on implicit stringification of references, we think that adding more runtime effects to strict doesn’t really fit. The issue would likely be better addressed with a new warning (and is very similar to the uninitialized warning when dealing with undef).

[P5P posting of this summary]

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