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From:
James E Keenan
Date:
February 14, 2020 23:00
Subject:
Re: no feature 'indirect';
Message ID:
20200214230014.32040.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
On 2/13/20 6:16 AM, (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker ) wrote:
> ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) writes:
> 
>> 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.
> […]
>> [1]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/17186
>> [2]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/17477
> 
> After a fix by TonyC to make catch METHOD VAR and METHOD BLOCK as well,
> plus a simplification of the logic in intuit_method() by me, I consider
> this ready to merge.
> 
> Any final questions, comments or concerns?  User-visible-change freeze
> is next Thursday, so I'd like to get this in well before then.
> 
> - ilmari
> 

I haven't been following this discussion too closely, so my question may 
be on the naive side:

Are we planning to merge *both* p.r.s and release in 5.32?

If someone were to ask me, "What will be new in perl-5.32?", how would I 
express this change in 3-4 sentences?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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