Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from July 2013
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:55 PM, David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> wrote: > I see a trend (recent? not sure) of people advocating "dialect" > pragmas -- when we can't just deprecate an old syntax, some people who > prefer something else would rather just replace it lexically. > > That's what I mean is a broader design decision than any one feature. > Do we want "dialects" of Perl 5 or not? It's a way out of the > back-compatibility box [ironic to say, given your post about it], but > I think it comes at a cost that we shouldn't trivialize. I'm all for dialect pragmas on CPAN, but I don't think it should in core. In core, the only dialects should be 5.16, 5.18, 5.20. YMMV. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next