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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
June 28, 2011 14:45
Subject:
Re: Can we do global bug fixes that change behavior?
Message ID:
20110628214506.GR3062@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:31:57PM +0200, Christian Walde wrote:
> xdg suggested on IRC that i ask this as a separate question, so:
> 
> obra:
> 
> Assuming p5p reaches an agreement that magical newline-changing on Windows is a bug, would you agree to changing the behavior globally for the interpreter; or only accept it as a lexical fix when 'use v5.16' is in effect no matter what the concensus is?

I would strongly prefer the latter.

> leont indicated that this kind of change could be applied with zero ill effects from 5.14 on, and with a possible performance regression from 5.12 on.
> 
> -- 
> With regards,
> Christian Walde

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