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Peter Rabbitson
Date:
June 27, 2013 10:31
Subject:
Re: What does "deprecated" mean? (was: [perl #118511] Use of bare<< to mean <<"" is deprecated - make a hard error)
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20130627103106.GA2104@rabbit.us
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:26:16PM +0200, demerphq wrote:
> 
> What you are suggesting is that we can only remove deprecated features
> when you and some group of unnamed individuals have approved the
> reason for removal.

I never made such a claim. Please reread my parts of the thread and try 
to see my message for what it is.

> I dont think that flies.

I don't think so either ;)

> Any such issues should be raised when the features is proposed for 
> deprecation. If the pumpking, who has final decision on the matter, 
> decides the item is deprecated then that should be sufficient.

Agreed (nor ever contested)

> Frankly if I encountered a sufficiently long deprecated feature in
> part of the code I tend to work on and it got in my way in the
> slightest bit I would chainsaw it without question or even discussion,
> and would not expect any come back on it.

Precisely! The whole point is that this is not the case wrt <<"".

Thanks for loudly agreeing with me ;)

Cheers

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