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On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:16:30PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 19:38, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
[ just repeating here what I added to the github thread]
While such a warning will of course flush out possible bugs, it will also
warn on existing perfectly valid code, such as
my $nargs = @_;
A quick CPAN grep of \$\w+\s*=\s*\@_; matches 267 distributions, and
looking at the first few hits, about 2/3 appear to be valid uses.
Coupled with code that may have done "use warnings FATAL => 'all'", there
is lots of scope for breakage of existing code. So its a -1 from me.
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