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On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 12:29, Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org> wrote:
> There's some legacy syntax still used in some very old code bases, e.g.
> TheSchwartz
>
> my TheSchwartz::Job $job = shift;
>
> As far as I can tell, this doesn't do anything except require that
> TheSchwartz::Job namespace exists. It doesn't require $job to be a
> TheSchwartz::Job.
>
> I have some questions:
>
> 1. Is this documented anywhere still?
>
> 2. Is the syntax deprecated?
>
> 3. if not, are there plans to do something useful with it, e.g. enforce
> type constraints?
>
It is covered in perldoc -f 'my' (aka perlfunc.pod) under "my TYPE VARLIST"
and in "Private Variables via my()" in perlsub. From the former:
The exact semantics and interface of TYPE and ATTRS are still
evolving. TYPE may be a bareword, a constant declared with "use
constant", or "__PACKAGE__". It is currently bound to the use of
the fields pragma, and attributes are handled using the
attributes pragma, or starting from Perl 5.8.0 also via the
Attribute::Handlers module. See "Private Variables via my()" in
perlsub for details.
Cheers,
Yves
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