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chromatic
Date:
October 26, 2009 17:44
Subject:
Re: do SUBROUTINE(LIST)
Message ID:
200910261744.38146.chromatic@wgz.org
On Monday 26 October 2009 17:35:37 Tom Christiansen wrote:

> Please tell me you really aren't cursing perl scripts written
> prior to perl5, nor that you intend to gratuitously break these
> by rather dispassionately putting a bullet through their heads?

If twelve years, five months, and eleven days is too soon after the 
announcement of deprecation in a major release to remove a feature, what time 
period do you consider warranted?

-- c

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