On Sun Aug 04 23:37:20 2013, sprout wrote: > On Sun Aug 04 19:02:50 2013, tonyc wrote: > > Unless someone else speaks up I plan to apply it as is (with whitespace > > fixes.) > > Are we going to apply it before we have even discussed why we are > deprecating this, i.e., what problem we are trying to solve? > > Also, deprecating leading :: except when a sub with that name exists > doesn’t make sense to me. That’s deprecating something except when > people use it. I'm not too worried either way about the deprecation, but I didn't find your arguments all that convincing. I don't have a problem with more discussion, though I feel a bit bad for Brian over the work he's done on the patch if it doesn't go ahead. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117087Thread Previous | Thread Next