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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
May 25, 2004 02:18
Subject:
Re: variable names in uninit warnings for maint?
Message ID:
1085476700.40b30f5c7dd5b@imp5-q.free.fr
Quoting Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>:
> The disadvantage of PERL_5_10_ISH is that we then have to invent
> PERL_5_12_ISH
> and so on.
> 
>   use more 'future';
> 
> So some sort of name that isn't version specific but does suggest sneak
> preview beta would be my (current) preferred choice.

In my mind, being version specific was a "feature" :
it will ease migration of a script from 5.8 to 5.10
without having unwanted side-effects it one forgot
to remove "use more 'future'". (*)

(*) or maybe "use more 'features'" :)
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