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On 13/09/2011 22:07, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> I agree with all the backward compatibility *goals*, but I think
>> redefining "v5.x" to mean "exactly v5.x" instead of "equal or greater
>> than v5.x" is a bit contrary to that aim.
>>
> The point of the new semantics for "use v5.x" is to insulate code from
> changes to Perl's defaults. Keeping the existing semantics ensures
> that programs will break as we make changes to Perl's defaults.
>
> We should certainly have some way for developers who want their code
> to get "the running Perl's semantics, whether it's 5.16 or 5.36" to
> hurt themselves if they want to, but it really should not be the default.
>
>
Would one of the following pragma work
use latest;
use version::latest;
use latest::version;
Then we have
use 5.x where x <16 := use at least version 5.x
use 5.x where x >= 16 := use exactly version 5.x, with all the semantics
of that version except I'd like to propose it really means use the max
known version of the interpreter of version 5.x.00 to 5.x.99
use latest := Use the semantics of the interpreters version;
This gives us the opportunity to do something like
use latest;
my @features = latest::features;
die "no given/when" unless grep {$_ eq 'switch'} @features
John
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