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From:
Dan Book
Date:
June 27, 2020 17:04
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
CABMkAVWCBPFd_ce28hxv+A_n87a1OS4CP4K4SsgtHK9MgGXmsg@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
wrote:

> I especially agree with the part about authors of CPAN modules trying
> to be polite to older versions - I have quite a few of those myself.
> Right none almost none of them will be capable of being 7-friendly if 7
> just presumes its semantics without my say-so. If 7 required "use v7"
> to actually turn on 7-syntax then things like List::UtilsBy will
> continue to run without the horrible hack that is currently my attempt
> to monkeypatch a :prototype() into older Perls. [see other thread]
>

I'd also like to quickly point out that this is also an issue for
Test::More.

-Dan
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