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From:
Alberto Simões
Date:
July 3, 2016 20:03
Subject:
Re: Indented here docs?
Message ID:
ca90d994-b476-b152-a4ac-f93e50efaab0@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt


On 03/07/16 20:50, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>

+1

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