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>>>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:51:02 +0100, Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> said: > 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... http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=75138 -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next