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This would be a pretty difficult change. Aside from backwards incompatibility, module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups, and in most c
by Grinnz 7y ago
This would be a pretty difficult change. Aside from backwards incompatibility, module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups, and in most cases both of those are case sensitive, and it's entirely possible for valid programs to use two modules that only differ in case - at best I could see a warning that searches for a "did you mean?" but that sounds slow.
- ssalazar 7y ago> Aside from backwards incompatibility Isn't Perl 6 already backwards incompatible? > module names are both filesystem lookups and package stash lookups >> names converted to lowercase internally Converting names to lowercase internally fixes this. > it's entirely possible for valid programs to use two modules that only differ in case Many people (myself included) would see this as a mis-feature not worth saving.
- Grinnz 7y agoThis thread was regarding Perl 5.