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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:37 AM Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net> wrote: > > > > On Jul 1, 2020, at 6:56 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 23:19, Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> What I was trying to emphasize is that unless you explicitly declare the > >> perl version semantics you want to use in some way (and I am > >> definitively in the "use v7" camp here), your code would become broken > >> in the next mayor release, if that follows an > >> all-features-enabled-by-default policy. > > > > If this heads this way, I hope they have a provision in place for > > "your code conflicts with a feature that will be enabled in perl ( $] > > + 0.2 )" warnings like has been expected of the majority previous > > backwards compatibility breaks. > > > > But that's ... probably going to be a *mountain* of fun to actually > implement. > > > > I think some tooling that ships with Perl and gives this advice or > upgrades it would be very helpful. Potentially something that auto-upgraded > would be nice. > > Example: Something that fixes indirect object notation automagically. > This is practically impossible. It's not even possible to statically detect that indirect object notation is in use. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next