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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
September 10, 2012 17:02
Subject:
Re: Lexical subs are ready [perl #113930]
Message ID:
20120911000229.GA11571@cancer.codesimply.com
* Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-comment@perl.org> [2012-09-09T02:51:43]
> There are still some things that need to be looked into, but they are
> bizarre edge cases unlikely to occur in real code.
> 
> I would like to merge this to blead fairly soon (once I write
> documentation), so there is plenty of time to shake out bugs (or design
> flaws) before 5.18.
> 
> In the mean time, you can try out the sprout/lexsub branch.

I look forward to playing with it!

This strikes me as exactly the sort of thing that belongs behind 'use
experimental' at least before it hits Real Production, because it's a big,
complex, *experimental* feature that we might want to turn off without having
to go through a big deprecation cycle in case of future epiphany.

-- 
rjbs


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