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> On Nov 24, 2021, at 08:30, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > In a recent PSC call (whose notes I still have to write up - sorry about > that), a thought was expressed that we should do more "dogfooding" - > namely, using our own features in our own code. I'd like to encourage > more people to help us achieve this. > > ((Wikipedia has more on the origin of the phrase > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food )) > > I personally find it very useful to be a bleeding-edge user of a lot of > my own new features; many of my personal-use CPAN modules and programs > are dependent on Object::Pad, async/await, and various of my > Syntax::Keyword::* modules. It's useful to be both implementer and user > of these new features, so as to get a good feel for what and how it > should be designed, used, extended. > > We should do the same in core perl; currently we do not. > > For example, I notice that basically nowhere in any of our shipped .pm > files are we using any of the following features that are already > present in perl releases: > > * Postfix deref > * Sub signatures > * The `isa` operator > * try/catch blocks Of these, only postfix-deref is officially production-ready, right? The rest are experimental? I would think it better to avoid experimental features in core … though once a given feature achieves official stability, of course, it would be awesome to adopt it internally. > Who wants to help us out with this? What are some example files you have in mind? I assume dual-life/CPAN modules would not be part of this migration? -FThread Previous | Thread Next