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On 06/08/2017 07:43 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> Sawyer X wrote:
>> I think what this addresses is a developer assuming that undef'ing this
>> variable (by applying "undef" to it, undef()'ing it, or local()izing it)
>> has an effect. Any such assumption might be worthwhile verifying doesn't
>> work by fatalizing.
> The effect that
>
> local ${^ENCODING} = undef;
>
> has is to protect code from buggy behaviour possibly turned on by some
> other piece of code. Such defensive programming should continue to
> work, so that people *now* can write such code to make their new code
> work properly in older perl versions.
Pretty much sums up why it probably shouldn't be fatalized.
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