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2009/7/10 Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>: > * Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> [2009-07-10 17:25]: >> One good reason might be: someone who writes something on 5.12, >> and doesn't know the history of scalar split, will get a nasty >> surprise when they run that code on <=5.10. > > The default could be to die in scalar context, and returning a > count could require `use 5.011`. I wouldn't favor shoving all possible incompatible behaviours in lexical hints. Or keeping two versions of the split source code in Perl forever. After all, split in scalar context will warn on <=5.10, and possibly tests will fail, so we can suppose this kind of incompatible change is reasonably safe. We're speaking about newly written code here, not old code.Thread Previous | Thread Next