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Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> wrote on Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:32:09 CST: >> Perl really isn't spec-based to allow one to adjudge a bug from a feature >> based on a formal spec, so there's a lot of this sort of thing going around. > Right. And this is why I'd like to try to avoid adding more things like > this whenever possible - these are the sorts of things that makes the > language a lot harder to change in the future. Can we even make IO::File > stop loading File::Spec at this point? Someone may be relying on this > autoloading behavior, and their code would break. (To be clear, I think > the answer to this question is "yes", but the potential for breaking > existing code isn't something that should be ignored either.) I think you're right that it could very well break code. Whether this counts as breaking something that's already broken, I don't know. Nor if it is, whether that justifies doing so. Is the current situation actually hurting anyone? --tomThread Previous | Thread Next