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From:
David Golden
Date:
October 26, 2009 19:36
Subject:
Re: do SUBROUTINE(LIST)
Message ID:
5d4beb40910261936x19597206sce3c11b8187cfd5a@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:
> In-Reply-To: Message from David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com>
>   of "Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:45:51 EDT."
>   <5d4beb40910261745s1301ed65hd17cd47de5767e32@mail.gmail.com>
>
>> Sorry for the knee-jerk reaction and it's really not
>> personal. But, jeez, we're talking about already
>> deprecated features.  What's the point of marking them
>> deprecated in the first place if not to eventually
>> remove them?
>
> They were cursed by those who wanted to overthrow the
> status quo and walk on people's code way back before
> the perl6 schism, whither such sentiments are better directed.
>
> Or aren't they?

I sometimes wish Larry had the foresight to call it something other
than "Perl 6" so that Perl 5 could have incremented to 6 and (more
justifiably) changed stuff.

-- David

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