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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
January 15, 2017 10:41
Subject:
Re: Deprecation plans
Message ID:
20170115114043.66678370@pc09.procura.nl
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:36:52 +0100, Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 01:15 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:05:39PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> [...]
> >> Shouldn't we be consistent here and either make all previously magical
> >> variables listed in perlvar either not special at all (as seems to be
> >> the plan with $* & $#), or reserve them forever by making their use
> >> fatal as is the plan with $[?
> >>
> >> My bias would be to just make them all fatal, despite all these old
> >> deprecation warnings someone will dig up an old script / blogpost /
> >> Matt's Script Archive entry and try to execute it, I think it would be
> >> more helpful to just die in those cases instead of introducing subtle
> >> behavior differences.
> > +1
>
> I reckon this was an oversight. I'm also in favor of making them all fatal.
>
> Any objections?
Not from me. sounds logic
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