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On 01/29/2017 09:14 PM, 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. Are you asking why it is a deprecation vs. a continuous warning? "it's been around since perl 4" is, in and of itself, not a convincing argument...Thread Previous | Thread Next