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demerphq
Date:
January 30, 2012 00:23
Subject:
Re: whither study()?
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On 29 January 2012 21:52, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Does the Perl core count as the wild?

Umm, no. Quick look at the dancing bear! :-)

>> Can we just no-op and
>> deprecate it?
>
> Can you do that without slowing down splain?

Does it really slow down splain?

Yves



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