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2009/12/9 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 05:21:54PM -0500, jesse wrote: > >> Talking to Nicholas about my concerns, he suggested that many of these >> problems would go away if legacy directives always defaulted to enabled. > > With a slightly more "exciting" view, that I don't know Jesse's opinion on, > that the intent is that specific legacy behaviours will change, by in the > next major release warning, and the one after that not being the default. > > Although thinking more about that, it means that "legacy" would be slightly > hairy, in that the default enabled subset would be different on different > (future) major releases. I don't know if that's too hard to explain and teach. I am firmly convinced the only sane solution is modifiers. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next