* Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> [2010-02-25 01:50]: > Based on your explanation, "deprecate" feels like a very strong > statement. It's more of a "This library does unspeakable things > to Perl's understanding of strings. It's unlikely that you want > to use it. Instead have a look at ..." I’m not making sense of this. Are you saying “deprecate” doesn’t feel strong enough for the wording, or are you saying that that the wording is too strong? Or…? > Or do we actually have a better way to do _everything_ bytes > does? Well, no. We do have correct ways for every misguided use of bytes.pm and I believe we have better ways for all its correct uses, but I don’t think we have anything to offer to people with insane uses. :-) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next