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Bram wrote:
>> If this is going to be a common enough use case for deprecated,
>> conditional
>> deprecation, why not build it in?
>>
>> use deprecated $] >= 5.11;
>>
>> Or to leave open the possibility of other arguments...
>>
>> use deprecated if => $] >= 5.11;
>>
>
> That's not really backwards compatbile. Unless of course deprecated is
> also added on CPAN and Switch has a dependency on it but that just seems
> silly to me
I presume you're referring to "use deprecated" in general and not specific
syntax which is what I was really talking about.
Ok, no problem, make it a dependency. It's not like Switch doesn't already
have far more complicated dependencies. Having a general way to say "this
module is deprecated under these conditions" seems useful.
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