[perl #39791] [TODO] deprecate @MAIN syntax in favor of :main
Jerry Gay
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everybody wanted the colon, and now we have it. it's time to lop off
@these ungainly warts@.
an untested first attempt appears below.
~jerry
Index: compilers/imcc/imcc.l
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--- compilers/imcc/imcc.l (revision 13249)
+++ compilers/imcc/imcc.l (working copy)
@@ -259,12 +259,6 @@
"method" return(METHOD); /* old compat cruft -
the canonical colon names are below */
-<emit,INITIAL>"@MULTI" return(MULTI);
-<emit,INITIAL>"@MAIN" return(MAIN);
-<emit,INITIAL>"@LOAD" return(LOAD);
-<emit,INITIAL>"@IMMEDIATE" return(IMMEDIATE);
-<emit,INITIAL>"@POSTCOMP" return(POSTCOMP);
-<emit,INITIAL>"@ANON" return(ANON);
":method" return(METHOD);
<emit,INITIAL>":multi" return(MULTI);