A5 implies perl6's real timescale

A5 says this:

> I'm accepting the basic premise of this RFC that the ?...? construct is
> going away, one way or another.

and perlop (from 5.6.1) says this:

> ?PATTERN?
>     ...
>     This usage is vaguely deprecated, which means it just might possibly
>     be removed in some distant future version of Perl, perhaps somewhere
>     around the year 2168.

That's a long time for implementation :-)

Well, this is really only a problem for p52p6, I suppose.

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• A5 - A job well done by Richard Proctor
• A5 implies perl6's real timescale by Peter Haworth