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On Mon Aug 05 17:15:10 2013, tonyc wrote: > 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, I have not yet heard any arguments in favour of the deprecation, other than ‘we are going to do this’. I would like to know what problem is being solved here. > though I feel a bit bad for > Brian over the work he's done on the patch if it doesn't go ahead. Brian, I hope you don’t feel bad. After all, we’ve all written patches that haven’t been applied. :-) -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117087Thread Previous