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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

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Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.

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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature

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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.

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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(

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Piet Van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?
Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.


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Born: September 27, 1954 (age 70)
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