develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from January 2012

Re: How we deprecate (was Re: Deprecating '\w {' in v5.16)

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
demerphq
Date:
January 30, 2012 02:33
Subject:
Re: How we deprecate (was Re: Deprecating '\w {' in v5.16)
Message ID:
CANgJU+Up_XNz-RxhgX+ojTiPYDrSHQZSk1UYCytkcTJKvsPwCg@mail.gmail.com
On 30 January 2012 03:21, David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
> However, we should think about how we want to deprecate things: do we
> want a deprecation warning (or many of them) to follow simultaneously
> with the announcement of deprecation in a stable release?

I personally think that deprecation warnings would be a lot easier to
add, and a lot less painful,  if they were warn-first-use, instead of
the normal warn-every-use.

Yves


-- 
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About