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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote: > has DWIM forever (probably since perl 1). I'm not saying we *cannot* > change it, just that any change needs to be either only within the scope > of a lexical pragma or to go through a full deprecation cycle with > mandatory warnings before it changes. I disagree. For anything which is *documented* as "undefined" (even when we mean "unspecified") we should feel free to change whenever we think the benefits outweigh the costs, without any recourse to a deprecation cycle. Fo anything which is *undocumented* (but that people have come to rely on), we should not change without a deprecation cycle (short of a security vulnerability, anyway). -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next