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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
October 24, 2011 06:11
Subject:
Re: feature.pm proposal
Message ID:
EC5967FF-2AA5-4F0E-8FBB-4A821A0445FD@cpan.org

On Oct 24, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
>> Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> writes:
>> 
>>> To me it makes sense to have feature bundles as simple lists of
>>> features and make ‘use v5.14’ do an implicit ‘no feature ":5.16"; use
>>> feature ":5.14"’.
>> 
>> Instead of having 'use v5.14' do a 'no feature', rather have feature do
>> an implicit 'all features off' before setting any feature bundle.
>> 
>> This would establish a clearly defined state no matter how we get there.
> 
> To go one step further, I would like «no VERSION» not to mean "Don't
> accept version X of perl", but "Don't accept version X behavior".

I wish! But how do we enable that only under ‘use v5.16’???


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