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David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Mark Overmeer <mark@overmeer.net> wrote: > > Counting back from Feb/2012 there must be a moment not too far away > > when the user-visible changes get frozen. So, about when? > > > > The whole purpose of this thread was to check with "Core" what would > > be the best way to get the changes into 5.16. Where goes what. Still > > not completely sure where the consensus will get us. > > I haven't seen anybody object to a documentation patch for POSIX.pm. > I would suggest submitting that as a distinct patch. I will commit to > personally reviewing it and providing feedback (or else I will just > commit it if I think it's close enough). I don’t know where to find it now, but I seem to remember reading the proposed doc patch and noticing two things: 1) If it’s aimed solely at C programmers looking for Perl ways to do things, it might be offputting for Perl programmers who might, as a result, not learn about certain useful functions, such as floor, ceil and fmod, which I use *all the time*. 2) The description for strtod discouraged its use, even though it’s sometimes indispensable. If we are to discourage it, we should fix Perl’s number-parsing first. It’s been a while, though, and these observations may not be relevant.Thread Previous | Thread Next