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demerphq
Date:
January 26, 2020 04:26
Subject:
Re: no feature 'indirect';
Message ID:
CANgJU+Ww=ZKUKvTYRavR0QDqG1PMmWrA2tUV8kAa_xGRy+zOTA@mail.gmail.com
So this enables indirect everywhere? That doesnt sound at all reasonable to
me...

I expect such a construct to be lexically scoped in which case why would it
break CPAN?

Yves

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, 12:11 Karen Etheridge, <perl@froods.org> wrote:

> I would love to see this in 5.32 if possible, but can we get an idea
> of its impact first?  Is it possible to smoke this against cpan (or
> the cpan-3000)?
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:53 AM Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
> <ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Porters,
> >
> > Based on TonyC's initial "use feature 'noindirect';"¹ PR, I've created
> > another one for "no feature 'indirect';"², which inverts the feature and
> > makes it enabled by default, and included in all the feature bundles.
> >
> > Do we want to remove it from the 5.32 feature bundle, or is that too
> > late in the development cycle?
> >
> > - ilmari
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/17186
> > [2]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/17477
> > --
> > - Twitter seems more influential [than blogs] in the 'gets reported in
> >   the mainstream press' sense at least.               - Matt McLeod
> > - That'd be because the content of a tweet is easier to condense down
> >   to a mainstream media article.                      - Calle Dybedahl
>

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