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From:
Zsbán Ambrus
Date:
October 24, 2011 13:39
Subject:
Re: feature.pm proposal
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
> Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> writes:
> 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.

I think feature should do that only if you supply a numeric feature
bundle.  It can make sense to just turn feature "unicode_strings" on
or off in a block, which should not touch other features.

Ambrus

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