disappearing of global perlish variables

[Mike C. Fletcher]

gabriele renzi wrote:

>Hi gurus and nubys,
>
>matz said more than once that the perlish global variables like
>$/ or $: are going away in future releases.
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>
Hmm, I've never, (in 8 years) seen $/ or $: (as Python code) in Python.  
I'm sure I would have remembered something that jarringly opaque if it 
were to show up in a Python module.  Are you asking if they are going 
away from Perl?  Or do these exist in some obscure (and obviously warped 
and twisted :) ) corner of Pythonalia that I've managed to avoid falling 
into through some good karmic influence from a past life?

>I wonder if is there already a decision, what they will become?
>I mean, it's easy to think that $DEFAULT_INPUT may become a class
>variable of IO but what about $1..$n or $: ?
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>
??? Um, are you sure this is the right newsgroup to ask?

>More, would it be possible to have some kind of backward compat via an
>external module ? 
>  
>
No, that sounds almost Pythonic, though from what I just read a few days 
ago, maybe Perl *is* trying to become Python via the v6 rewrite ;) , and 
thus maybe this thread (with a little explanation, perhaps, as to what 
on earth $/ or $: mean/do/change) does belong in the Python newsgroup.

Have fun,
Mike

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