Deprecation of ${^ENCODING}

We previously decided to outlaw the use of ${^ENCODING} by 5.28,
and we have been issueing a warning:

    $ perl5.26.0 -wE '${^ENCODING} = 0'
    ${^ENCODING} is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28 at -e line 1.


However, it turns out we only gave out this warnings if we try
to set ${^ENCODING} to a defined value. None of the following
lines warn:

    $ perl5.26.0 -wE '${^ENCODING} = undef'
    $ perl5.26.0 -wE 'undef ${^ENCODING}'
    $ perl5.26.0 -wE 'local ${^ENCODING}'


Which raises the question, what should we do? Should we warn (with
a message it will be gone in 5.30) when we try to assign an undefined
value to ${^ENCODING}, and die when trying to assign a defined value? Or
bump the deprecation message to 5.30, and now warn even when assigning
an undefined value? If we just make it a fatal error we may see a lot
of code failures (there are a number of test files in cpan/Encode which
will fail -- including at least one test file which just hangs).



Abigail

• Deprecation of ${^ENCODING} by Abigail
• Re: Deprecation of ${^ENCODING} by Karl Williamson
• Re: Deprecation of ${^ENCODING} by Sawyer X
• Re: Deprecation of ${^ENCODING} by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: Deprecation of ${^ENCODING} by Sawyer X
• Re: Deprecation of ${^ENCODING} by ilmari