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Re: [perl #132760] Blead Breaks CPAN: YANICK/List-Lazy-0.3.0.tar.gz

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Karen Etheridge
Date:
February 27, 2018 04:13
Subject:
Re: [perl #132760] Blead Breaks CPAN: YANICK/List-Lazy-0.3.0.tar.gz
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:

> The idea that signatures have never been stable is true, unless you're
> playing games with the wording.  The stable releases of Perl that have
> included signatures have all included explicit warnings, in documentation
> and at compile time, that signatures are experimental.  They have thus
> never qualified as a stable feature, in our usual parlance.  Perhaps you
> mean something else by "stable", but in that case you'll have to explain
> what you mean in order to further your argument.
>

​Well, there's https://metacpan.org/release/signatures, which has had a
stable API for a decade, but I don't know if this is what Peter is thinking
of.​

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