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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:58:01PM +0200, Christian Walde wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:45:07 +0200, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote: > > >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. > > Maybe i should've added this too: The question is asked because an outright and absolute refusal of the former means that i'd need to stop spending time here and look into other, less wholesome, venues; since a lexical-only fix for this is flat out use- and pointless. My gut feeling is that such a change to the no-declared-version default would cause a lot of code in the wild to break. I don't like us hurting our users. I've come around to believing that we need to move toward making use v5.16+ not just a low-tide mark but a description of what version of Perl's semantics you expect. That's the bulk of my YAPC/OSCON/YAPC::EU talk this year. I'm preparing a variant that will make sense as text that I can post to p5p. -jThread Previous