develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from January 2022

Re: PSC #049 2022-01-07

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Ovid via perl5-porters
Date:
January 10, 2022 14:40
Subject:
Re: PSC #049 2022-01-07
Message ID:
556621945.2056816.1641825612706@mail.yahoo.com
On Sunday, 9 January 2022, 17:34:19 CET, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:

> So we can choose one the more complex versions of "make signatured subroutines faster" with no 
> warnings, and do that right away and then remove the experimental flag after a year.  But we don't
> have that branch.  It's been the primary blocker on removing the experimental flag on signatures for
> years, I believe.  Meanwhile, the only people who get the vastly improved experience of having
> signatures on subroutines are the ones who are willing to ignore the "this is experimental and might
> change at any time" label — which is exactly the behavior we want to avoid encouraging.

I'm sold. Decoupling "make signatures non-experimental" and "deal with @_" sounds like the right way to go.

Best,
Ovid
-- 
IT consulting, training, specializing in Perl, databases, and agile development
http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/. 

Buy my book! - http://bit.ly/beginning_perl








Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About