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From:
Tom Molesworth via perl5-porters
Date:
July 5, 2020 20:37
Subject:
Re: Perl 7 - updates
Message ID:
CAGXhHdkCL2S2jsnRS=vcAmt8vrK93zA9a6+Xsz61eZMvzpKjOQ@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 04:06, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
> On 2020-07-04 9:49 a.m., Tom Molesworth via perl5-porters wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 07:26, Sawyer X wrote:
> >
> > It is important to note that with this change, we can provide helpful
> > feedback for the user. If one were to run a newer binary with no "use
> > VERSION", we could produce an output that says:
> >
> > You need to provide the version of Perl your code targets.
> This is
> > done with a "use V<version number>". The following version numbers
> are
> > supported:
> ...
> Just to be clear, this isn't a "warning" in the traditional sense, rather
> it is
> a fatal error.
>
Ah, I see - you mean instead of breaking a long list of CPAN modules due to
new defaults, we're now choosing to break every module in CPAN plus every
existing piece of code?
Would this not tend to reduce some of the potential enthusiasm for the
first major Perl release in decades?
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