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From:
Tom Horsley
Date:
October 27, 2009 04:34
Subject:
Re: do SUBROUTINE(LIST)
Message ID:
20091027073443.5dbb0682@tomh
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:26:49 -0400
Abigail wrote:
> Let's consider anything marked 'deprecated' as 'this construct may
> disappear in a future release without further warning'. But such a
> feature is only removed if there's a clear benefit (speed up in more
> common constructs; it gets in the way of implementing a new feature; etc).
Amen to that. Perl is, after all, the language that already has
47,321 different ways to do everything. The casual user would
have to wonder about the sanity of developers who pick just 1 or 2
of those and say, "We're taking these away because we think they
are bad.". If you take things away, have a reason better than:
"It triggers my OCD." :-).
> I doubt there's that much code
> that will be effected.
I doubt your doubt :-). Because there are 47,321 different ways to
do everything, perl is actually several million different languages.
One different subset for every user who managed to learn how to
get something accomplished, then stopped learning. There is absolutely
no telling which users learned a subset that depends on something
the developers have come to think of as horrid. It isn't horrid
to the user who got his job done with it.
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