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There's also
no if $] >= 7 feature 'signatures';
I agree that's probably the best way to go. It's a technical debt that makes sense to put off for another day. The same goes for Test2 prototypes.
Todd
> On Jun 30, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 23:45, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
> <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> TL;DR: I believe it impossible to write a dual-life module using
>> function prototypes that works on both perl 5 and perl 7.
>
> There may be an easier, and inherently more portable and compatible
> option, assuming of course, perl7 never deprecates the ability to `no
> feature qw(signatures)`
>
> ( in say, List::Utils )
>
> BEGIN {
> if ( $] >= 7) {
> require feature;
> feature->unimport('signatures');
> }
> }
>
> I've synthetically demonstrated this currently works on perl5.
>
> https://gist.github.com/kentfredric/875a5d2f9d56a7438669cbabfdc3b885
>
> Surely I must have missed something obvious.
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