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> On Dec 30, 2017, at 20:48, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote: > > Avar wrote: >> Not meaningless design changes, but to have some sort of schedule >> (preferably enforced by code, i.e. as soon as we begun 5.25 we start to >> warn/die) giving these experimental features an explicit expiry date. > > This would be a good way to discourage people from implementing > new features. I'm okay with that as an alternative to half-baked things remaining incomplete indefinitely. >> Consider the situation we're now in. We're about to release 5.28 and >> we've chickened out on changing a supposedly "experimental" feature >> mainly because it breaks stuff on CPAN. > > Good. That means we are involving the *whole community* in the lan- > guage design process. Yay for popular-vote-by-CPAN! If the Porters want Perl to be defined by popular usage, it behooves them not to release experiments they aren't prepared to support. -- Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next