text_combined: michael g schwern ftnhszcpoboxcom gerard goossen wrote part aim removing soft references reduce complexity core wasnt parser simplify dereference opcodes simplify perl code making dereference always dereference sometimes symbol lookup nothing using alias alias specific suitable make aliases symbolfetch_glob replacement symbol lookup disabling strict refs dereferencing string²you cant lookup using alias symbolfetch_glob much generic alias would implemented using symbolfetch_glob understand still possible purpose kurlia play perl guts ignore usability consequences language ignore rest perfectly valid goal experiment thats goal symbolfetch_glob easily used automaticly translating things like class name codep translated perl5tokurila converter to¹ symbolfetch_globclass name codep make code symbol table lookups complex longer makes obvious symbol lookup happening important user symbol lookup happening symbol lookup emphasized hidden like dont want know foo 42 actually sviv assignment dont care want assign number scalar programmer goal give reference name note theres nothing globs symbol tables goal glob currently one fairly arbitrary actions necessary achieve goal user think actions take might go something like action 1 come name action 2 get reference kind action 3 assign reference name actions fairly obvious goal code equally straightforward name class method action 1 ref sub action 2 alias name ref action 3 point youre going remove feature supporting ugly yet common idiom add something makes idiom easier rather something makes harder sure symbolfetch_glob support really odd times really want glob put alias times want name reference make easy things easy alias hard things possible fetch_glob hell argued 512 feature alias isnt include cpan modules available kurila appear used modules includes appear glob assignment dont think anyone remembers anyone gets mirror said gets good gumbo everything witches abroad terry prachett wed 06 aug 2008 140624 0400 alias kurila 13 released