On 15 August 2016 at 20:38, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> wrote: > On Aug 15, 2016, at 14:24, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 15 August 2016 at 19:48, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Not per se, though I'm not sure it can be made to work on 5.8 >>> (hv_clear_placeholders was introduced in 5.9.1, and I don't remember the >>> details of how such things worked before). >> >> It was dual-life in the past. > > Is everyone clear as to why it was brought into core? I'm not, but I presume there were Reasons. It seems prudent to re-examine them before switching back. Probably because nobody had the tuits. I think I managed it for a while, but noone picked it up when I stopped. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next