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On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 23:52:01 +0200, TTK Ciar <ttk2@ciar.org> wrote: > Certainly! I am referring specifically to http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2020/08/perl7-is-a-fork-of-values.html and the discussion about it at https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/i1qqxa/perl7_is_a_fork_of_values/ where p5p devs expressed related concerns. > > If something was lost in translation, I would be very grateful for clarification. > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 05:02:08PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: >> On 8/9/20 3:56 PM, TTK Ciar wrote: >> >Could you do me a favor, please, and reconcile assertions that Perl v5 >> >will continue to be supported with assertions elsewhere that Perl v5 will >> >be EOL'd when Perl v8 is released? >> > >> >> I do not know who is making those assertions. I have not heard them. >> Could you please cite a specific source so that we might respond to your >> concerns? More specifically, from the announcement video (which does not have terribly good accessibility, so this is the best example i found): > in major version > we can finally remove syntax so if we > disable for example indirect syntax in > seven in eight theoretically we could > removing the right syntax and I know > there is one person there that is still > writing indirect syntax and demands to > never change it but you know what that's > not our top priority https://youtu.be/6wPMh-3qYJM?t=3373 I don't know if that was just a random idea or actually an announcement of intent, or if it was clarified since, but as it is stated: This would result in people being unable to use orphaned CPAN modules unless drastic action is taken to e.g. empower modules@ to forcibly release fixes for distributions or other much more crazy solutions. -- With regards, Christian WaldeThread Previous | Thread Next