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> > 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 ..." > > > > Or do we actually have a better way to do _everything_ bytes does? > > The earlier discussion in the thread seemed to reach a rough consensus > that any use (apart from debugging etc) of bytes.pm was a mistake, even > bytes::length. > That wasn't quite how I read "day to day use" - regardless, it ain't being deprecated for 5.12. We're well into code freeze and the time for picking new things that are no longer supported as of 5.12. I'm absolutely thrilled with the rest of the prose. It's just the "deprecated" bit that's got me cranky and needs to get backed out or softened. > > -- > A walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step... > then continues for another 1,999,999 or so. > --Thread Previous | Thread Next