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Karl Williamson
Date:
July 6, 2016 18:35
Subject:
Re: Indented here docs?
Message ID:
577D4F5F.4090604@khwilliamson.com
On 07/04/2016 11:12 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> Karl Williamson wrote:
>> I believe it should die, as a courtesy to our customers,
>
> Are you saying that as a customer, or based on what you think a cus-
> tomer would want?  I, as a user of that feature, would rather have my
> most common use of it (<<;) continue working as long as it does not
> impede new syntax, so I do not have to go and hunt down all uses of it
> and change them.
>
>

What I mean is that if I were a customer who had been ignoring 
deprecation warnings for years, it would be better for me and my 
customers to have a release where it dies instead of having it  silently 
mean something else.

It appears that this is not a concern for this construct if we use 
tilde, as I understand it is already illegal.

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