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On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:53:25 +0200 Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote: > > I believe the main motivation for people saying they don't want to > > "use v7" is precisely to avoid having to update to "use v8" and so > > on in the future; having to chase the latest-and-greatest by making > > a single character change to their code every decade or so. > > But that just completely misses the point that some of your fine perl > 7 code would break when run under the perl 8 interpreter unless you > hint it to use the perl 7 semantics, in some way, right? Which is exactly the state that we are currently in where we have a great amount of existing perl 5 code (CPAN, DarkPAN, personal repoes, etc..) which would break when run under the perl 7 in interpreter, for exactly the same category of reasons. > I don't know if other people like to revisit their old code > frequently and update it to use new features as they become > available. Definitively that's not my case! Oh indeed. I personally am greatly in favour of continuing to declare what version of perl semantics the author wishes to have. I think just dragging people along to the latest-and-greatest without their opting-in is a terrible idea. The point of my message was simply to say that the people objecting to "use v7" are objecting to the "I have to declare that 7 in some way" part of it - and I suspect (though I may be putting words in their mouths here) that they would be equally opposed to declaring the 7 by way of the filename extension, as they would be in a "use" statement. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next