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On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 04:10:12PM +0200, Tomasz Konojacki wrote: > I'm not sure what exactly you are proposing. > > If it's turning ~~ into an enabled by default feature flag (although > disabled in the ":5.38" bundle) à la "indirect", then +1 from me. I mean that smartmatch and when() are completely removed, cannot be (re)enabled, and if used will always produce a compile-time error. > If you actually want to remove it, then I'm *strongly* opposed. We can't > remove smartmatch until we provide a replacement *and* it goes through a > proper deprecation cycle (and by "proper" I mean much longer than the > usual 2 release cycles). It's gone through a 9 year deprecation cycle, with a mandatory experimental warning that you have to explicitly disable. Whether we remove it or change it, its going to break any existing code which uses it. > Smartmatch is *very* widely used in production code and we *completely* failed > to communicate that it's on its way out. We have been telling people not to use it for nearly a decade. -- Music lesson: a symbiotic relationship whereby a pupil's embellishments concerning the amount of practice performed since the last lesson are rewarded with embellishments from the teacher concerning the pupil's progress over the corresponding period.Thread Previous | Thread Next