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From:
Abigail
Date:
January 29, 2017 20:41
Subject:
Re: Why is \c` deprecated?
Message ID:
20170129203943.GA5419@almanda.fritz.box
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 08:14:39PM -0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> It started warning in 5.14 or so, at which point I opposed the warn-
> ing.  Ever since then I have simply suppressed it in my code, since I
> think it is wrong.  Now it is a deprecation warning, and my code is
> very noisy.
> 
> What do we gain by deprecating this behaviour that has been around
> since perl 4?
> 
> This commit message for bfdc8cd3d5a is wrong to state that it was dep-
> recated in 5.14.  It was not deprecated until bfdc8cd3d5a.



It's listed as a deprecation in perl5140delta.pod.



Abigail

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