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On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:25:16 +0000 Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > So: > for 5.36, add warning; > for 5.38, remove @_ populating, and if we're lucky, stuff like > aliasing will also be in 5.38 - otherwise we tell people to revert to > non-signature subs for now for the hard stuff. > > Personally I would still much prefer to add warnings and disable @_ > on the same release: that way there's not a release or two where > people get warnings but everything still seems to work; so they add > 'no warnings foo' and everything continues being fine, then all their > code breaks a release later. To this end, I have been working on a branch to print those warnings: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19346 It sounds like we're in agreement on that part at least. Perhaps you could give that one a review and at least we can get that part ticked off. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next