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Eliminating old package'separator Was: PSC #041 — 2021-10-07

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From:
Nicolas Mendoza
Date:
October 11, 2021 14:12
Subject:
Eliminating old package'separator Was: PSC #041 — 2021-10-07
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Den 11.10.2021 14:44, skrev Nicolas Mendoza:
> Den 09.10.2021 22:50, skrev Ricardo Signes:
>> eliminating the old package'separator, for which we'd like to see a PR
>
> I did actually a patch for this in 2018, so I think at least it is 
> possible, it was just too ugly at the time to submit. I could give it 
> another go, but one (dual-life?) module part of the perl repo needs a 
> change and that's Test::More's "funny" "isn't" function. 
> https://metacpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/source/lib/Test/More.pm#L414 or 
> perhaps the patch should allow using ' as part of a symbol name?
>
Briefly looking at the patch now I see that in addition to Test-Simple; 
Scalar-List-Utils, PathTools, Term-Cap and autodie also has tests 
checking for ' support.



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