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From:
Karen Etheridge
Date:
June 29, 2020 20:04
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:59 PM David Mertens <dcmertens.perl@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I strongly suspect that the vast majority of Perl code will run fine under
> Perl 5 and 7. Subroutine signatures appear to be an interesting corner
> case, but I don't see why that needs to hold up the parade here.
>

That's the thing -- we just don't know yet. Until we try out at least one
(but preferably more than one) way forward and smoke a good chunk of cpan
against it, we're just guessing.

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