Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from November 2011
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 05:12:30PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think the kindest thing (sanest thing?) is not to retroactively have
> > "use v5.10|12|14" turn *off* anything (or unimport anything) that was
> > enabled. We could choose to have "use v5.16" create the "stable"
> > state you describe, though I don't think that should include
> > unimporting modules that were imported, only resetting
> > features/pragmas.
>
> To summarize:
>
> - use use v5.1{0,2,4} works as usual
> - use v5.16 will abort unless it is the first statement.
> - under v5.16, using any other use v5.1{0,2,4} will abort
> - starting with v5.16, a well-defined set of features/pragmas will be
> established.
>
> -- Johan
So does this mean that "use v5.16" is no longer lexical (if there can be
only one declaration, it will necessarily have to apply to the entire
program to actually make sense)? Will "use v5.16; use CGI;" break (since
CGI.pm isn't strict-safe)? This seems to defeat the entire goal here.
-doy
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next