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On Mon Apr 20 03:46:25 2015, eda@waniasset.com wrote: > I agree, it should throw an exception. > > I proposed the more timid alternative of just warning because I know > that if it started throwing exceptions, existing and "working" code > would break. > So I imagined the cautious way forward was to warn for a release or > two and start throwing exceptions at some point in the future. > > If the p5-porters are happy to take the bold approach of just dying on > any argument passed to hostname(), I am all for it. I'd be okay with just making it fatal, but I don't think it's in line with policy, and I don't think it's worth an exception. Care to provide a patch that issues a deprecation-category warning on args to hostname? -- rjbs --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124349