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Christian Hansen <christian.hansen@mac.com> wrote on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:21:30 +0100: > 21 feb 2012 kl. 00:58 skrev Tom Christiansen: > Why does it take a new layer? Why not just make the things > that get fatalized by > > use warnings FATAL => "utf8"; > > fatal without saying that? > I would love for this to happen, I have advocated this on #p5p several > times, but there is always the battle of "backwards compatibility > disease". About 10 months ago I reported a security issue reading the > relaxed UTF-8 implementation (still undisclosed and still exploitable) > on the perl security mailing list. There is absolutely no need to remain compatible with security-related bugs, and every reason not to. Indeed, security is the only thing that we ever issue patches to releases that are past their end-of-life support. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next