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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 07:08:25PM -0400, George Greer wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jesse wrote: > > > >On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:00:22PM -0400, George Greer wrote: > >>Sick day means necro-posting! > > > >Personally, I really don't want to see this break for 5.12 or 5.14 > >unless there's some really serious win we get by breaking it. > > The patch I attached makes the ' package separator a warning, not anything > fatal (unless you ask for "deprecated" to be fatal). Perhaps the > confusion arose from my talking about the fatal version I had been using > to find places it is used in Perl? > > I doubt the feature would be removed until 5.16 (if at all) even if the > warning made it into 5.12. The deprecated warning does have the advantage > of extra clues for people who wonder what happened to their possessive > variables, which was covered in the prior messages months ago. I'd like us to adopt a policy of actually removing things that we deprecate. I'd like it to be consistent - everything first deprecated "now" is removed "then". Otherwise people will become complacent about rewriting things - "oh, they don't really mean it" As I'd also like it to be "1 major release" between "now" and "then", I don't like the idea of deprecating something for 5.12, but only removing it in 5.16. (That's independent of what I think of the idea of deprecating ') Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next