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This is a retrospective Pre-RFC for a proposal from Curtis, for which he submitted a draft RFC[1]. We nearly missed it when reviewing proposals in-flight in our PSC meeting last week, and decided to trigger a discussion here, to reinforce the process. Beginning and casual Perl programmers regularly get confused / caught out by the requirement to add `1;` at the end of their modules. To add to their confusion, there are plenty of modules on CPAN with humorous alternatives for "1". Curtis proposed a feature called something like yield_true, which would result in the current file yielding a true value on successful compilation. So a module could then look like this: package Zork; use feature 'yield_true'; # code This is not a feature we’d expect people to use explicitly, but would be part of the version bundle, so you’d get it for free with a future `use v5.XY`. There’s a module called `true` on CPAN, which provides this[2]. Would this start off experimental? Hopefully not. Neil [1] https://github.com/Perl/RFCs/pull/16 [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/trueThread Next