Re: How on earth did we manage to break pack() so badly?

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> writes:

> I think we should not break backward-compatibility, but it may be a
> good idea to keep some features frozen and recommend looking at better
> "user-land" alternatives on CPAN.

Precisely. My idea was to keep current functionality (or a reasonable
subset thereof) in the core, and provide external modules that implement
(core plus) extended functionality, probably/hopefully in a much better
and friendlier way.

-- Johan

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