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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:21:34PM +0100, Steffen Schwigon wrote: > Just an opinion from a user: > > I never used the pattern but I have read it so often in any kind of > manuals or blogs (how were they called 10 years ago?) or auxiliary > modules (think Emacs modes) in the last 10 years that I expect > thousands of modules and scripts out there using it *somehow*. > > And remember the trouble on 5.12 release when removing perl4 > libs. Perl4! [sic]. With 5.12 I even struggled with trivial > deprecations like ???defined %hash???. Which had been deprecated for about 10 years. The warning was new. > Please avoid deprecations. Always. Your explanation of the problems is valid, but you can avoid the deprecations by not upgrading. Why did you upgrade your systems to 5.12? Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next