Bug #43061 for Modern-Perl: Modern Perl lacking some pragmas.

Thu Feb 05 13:36:35 2009 perl [...] evancarroll.com - Ticket created

you're missing a lot of Modern::Perl modules here. use mro 'c3'; these are also a huge plus. use autodie; use utf8; Maybe Moose/self for pm? use if $0 =~ '\.pm$' Moose; use if $0 =~ '\.pm$' self;

Tue Feb 17 19:51:49 2009 chromatic [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I've enabled C3 mro in 1.03. I'm on the fence about autodie, as it's not a core module in 5.10. Let me think about utf8 a little bit more.

Tue Feb 17 19:51:50 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Mar 19 13:59:54 2009 JLAVALLEE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Feb 05 13:36:35 2009, ECARROLL wrote: Show quoted text

> you're missing a lot of Modern::Perl modules here. > > these are also a huge plus. > use autodie; > use utf8; >

<snip> use utf8; is only to tell the perl parser that there's UTF-8 characters in the source - I'm not sure I understand the motivation for turning it on by default.

Thu Mar 19 14:15:03 2009 perl [...] evancarroll.com - Correspondence added

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> > use utf8; is only to tell the perl parser that there's UTF-8 characters > in the source - I'm not sure I understand the motivation for turning it > on by default.

The fact that it isn't on by default is because of legacy systems: (perldoc utf8) "When UTF-8 becomes the standard source format, this pragma will effectively become a no-op. For convenience in what follows the term UTF-X is used to refer to UTF-8 on ASCII and ISO Latin based platforms and UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC based platforms." All *modern* perl installs should have utf8, and should be encoding there files in utf8. The gain might not apply much for those of us that speak English, but Japenese Perl users will find this as a requirement for modernity. True, it only allows them to use utf8 in the source, but that is a *very* big thing.

Thu Mar 19 14:20:42 2009 perl [...] evancarroll.com - Subject changed from (no value) to 'Modern Perl lacking some pragmas.'

Tue May 12 20:27:20 2009 NUFFIN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

For what it's worth I agree. Perl 6's default encoding for source code is UTF-8, as well.

Tue Feb 02 07:49:19 2010 KSURI [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I also suggest adding no indirect ':fatal'; to disable indirect method syntax.

Tue Feb 02 10:44:11 2010 evan [...] dealermade.com - Correspondence added

CC:	perl [...] evancarroll.com
Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #43061] Modern Perl lacking some pragmas.
Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:42:16 -0600
To:	bug-Modern-Perl [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Evan Carroll <evan [...] dealermade.com>

2010/2/2 Алексей Суриков via RT <bug-Modern-Perl@rt.cpan.org>: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43061 > > > I also suggest adding > > no indirect ':fatal'; > > to disable indirect method syntax. >

Awesome pragma, I totally agree. -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets

Fri Sep 24 15:59:15 2010 perl [...] evancarroll.com - Correspondence added

Maybe it is time to fork this with something more aggressive... use utf8; use autodie; no indirect ':fatal'; use features ':5.12'; # adds unicode_strings I think it is unfortunate the representation this module makes are at odds with the intentions. It isn't Modern Perl, unless the goal is to be Modern. We can agree there are bugs and wrinkles in perl. These pragmas fix them, turn them on. We're not talking a lot of dependencies here. -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets http://www.evancarroll.com

Mon Oct 04 16:52:58 2010 perl [...] evancarroll.com - Correspondence added

I closed this bug with the release of my nextgen pragma (nextgen.pm) -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets http://www.evancarroll.com

Sun Jan 15 15:29:08 2017 chromatic [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Rejecting, as nextgen.pm addresses these issues.

Sun Jan 15 15:29:08 2017 chromatic [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'