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Hi all, Zefram wrote: > Eric Brine wrote: >> Since L<feature> is used to introduce features that are not backwards >> compatible, using C<< -E'...' >> instead of C<< -e'use 5.014; ...' >> may >> result in broken code when Perl is upgraded. > > I thought that was implicit, and very obviously so, in the definition > of -E. It's the inherent tradeoff, the price one pays for having such > a short shorthand. But I wouldn't object to it being made explicit. I agree with Zefram. This backwards-incompatible behavior is the *whole point* of -E. FWIW, I think documenting the current equivalent of -E (i.e. -e 'use 5.0XX;') is at best adding noise to the documentation. The perl core may have many problems but certainly, none of those is *lack* of docs. Cheers, SteffenThread Previous | Thread Next