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Thank you, this is all good to read, I support it. -- Darren Duncan On 2021-05-16 12:36 p.m., Neil Bowers wrote: > We just spent a painful year deciding that in fact, we're not going to enable > strict by default, even though we all wish there was a way we could do that > without inconveniencing a lot of people. > > So we're not going to break backwards compatibility without a compelling > argument. We want to move the language forwards more quickly than we have been, > but we'll be sticking with the yearly release schedule, and every year's release > should be a safe candidate for /usr/bin/perl. > > We saw with Perl 6, that opening up the gates to many changes at the same time > is not compatible with a regular release schedule. And as we saw with the > transition from Python 2 to 3, no matter how well prepared you think you are, > with a large body of deployed code, it's going to take years for all of your > users to move over. > > We want to make perl a better Perl, not a different language. We're not going to > switch to Raku's model for sigils, or change to . instead of ->, for example. > > Don't propose changes that go against these principles. > > We don't want to discourage wild ideas, just as long as they're wild ideas that > feel at least vaguely aligned with Perl's trajectory. If you're not sure, bounce > your ideas off someone, or write them up a blog.Thread Previous