Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5
by zzzcpan on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @05:35PM
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I guess I misread the example, sorry. I thought we were talking in the context of inconsistent behavior of Perl as a language and therefore its syntax, but not in the context of an undefined behavior of glob().
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We are and we aren't. elektronjunge chose an example that definitely is inconsistent, but I'm not sure that it's really indicative of Perl in general. IMHO, It's a fairly specific kind o broken, where we can't really fix the behavior because of backwards compatibility, but the documentation is just plain inadequate in this case as well.