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From:
Leon Brocard
Date:
October 28, 2011 11:38
Subject:
Re: $[ proposal
Message ID:
20111028183836.GA3353@gmail.com
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 09:59:08AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> Anyway, here is my core concern: $[ assignment was deprecated, then removed,
> to simplify the core and to remove the ability to use a feature that the
> porters largely agreed was a mistake. This changeset (b82b06b) adds the
> misfeature back to core as default behavior. It moves the original C
> implementation into a few hundred lines of XS, which undoes the simplification
> of core, since that XS can be loaded at any time.
>
> All that, and it went into core without discussion, because it was Warnocked.
> I'm pretty uncomfortable with that.
$[ has been deprecated for many years and was finally removed by
e1dccc0 (with an implementation on CPAN as Array::Base for "those
hopelessly addicted to FORTRAN-style 1-based indexing").
I'm not sure we should put it back in the core now that we've taken it
out.
Regards, Leon
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