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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
February 24, 2010 19:00
Subject:
Re: warding against bytes.pm
Message ID:
20100225025119.GA8181@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* 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/>

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