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From:
Paul Johnson
Date:
July 3, 2016 19:50
Subject:
Re: Indented here docs?
Message ID:
20160703195028.GC8772@pjcj.net
On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 03:28:56PM -0400, Matthew Horsfall (alh) wrote:

> Aside from the above, do we have a decision/consensus on if we need a
> deprecation cycle for the existing behaviour of <<-EOF / <<-"EOF" etc?
> (which, as far as I can tell, is to throw a warning and then
> eventually fail compilation? Or are there some cases where this is
> legal somehow?
> 
> Also, is this going experimental for 5.26?

I suppose that one option is to have a deprecation cycle in 5.26, and
also add this as experimental option which would silence those
deprecation messages.  Then we might want to relax our rules about two
stable releases and remove the experimental status in 5.28.

-- 
Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net
http://www.pjcj.net

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