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From:
Paul Johnson
Date:
January 29, 2012 12:03
Subject:
Re: whither study()?
Message ID:
20120129200320.GB30978@pjcj.net
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:41:33AM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> study() breaks stuff. It is currently subtly broken. It has been
> broken for a long time. It is poorly tested. And ive never actually
> seen it used in the wild.
>
> Is it really in Perls interest that I, or anyone else with the chops,
> even looks at fixing the bugs related to it? Can we just no-op and
> deprecate it?
> So, do we really want to maintain this thing? Does anybody know how it
> works? Does anybody have any examples where it actually makes a
> difference?
See http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/05/msg171803.html
for an answer to this particular question.
> I am going to look a /bit/ further into this just to see if it is a
> quick fix waiting to happen, but i really do wonder if we should even
> be maintaining this thing.
It sounds like we're not properly maintaining it at the moment. Perhaps
we should officially admit that? But then, I don't think I've ever used
study() in anger in the last 20 years or so anyway.
--
Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net
http://www.pjcj.net
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