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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:45:43PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 03:35:25PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > As far as removing it is concerned, I presume that no one is writing new > > code in this way, and probably hasn't for a few years. So the removal > > is a trade-off between a slight standardisation and simplification and > > breaking backwards compatibility with some perl4 era programs. > > > > I would side with keeping backwards compatibility. > > One could fudge it (by increasing complexity) by making it warn in any > source file using a perl 5 construction. Probably the simplest is *just* > to set a flag if C<use> is used. I'm not convinced it warrants any increase in complexity, especially for something that would still be a heuristic. -- Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.netThread Previous | Thread Next