Re: [MacPerl] Using ' instead of :: as the package separator

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.30 -0600 2000.02.28, Ken Williams wrote:
>David wrote the following in a post a moment ago:
>
>eldorado@ime.net (David) wrote:
>>#! perl -w
>>use strict;
>>require "StandardFile.pl";
>>my $dir = &StandardFile'GetFolder('Select a folder', "::");
>
>
>I was wondering why so many people in the MacPerl world use the single-quote
>instead of the double-colon as the package separator.

Some of the old libraries and docs still make use of it, and get stuck with it.

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