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On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 00:58, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 05:54:52PM +0200, Tomasz Konojacki wrote: > > I can't count the times I had to explain to people outside of the p5p > > bubble that "experimental" in the case of smartmatch actually means > > "deprecated" and they shouldn't use it. > > Perhaps these people have no business being coders? > Perhaps this is not the best advert for Perl. Other languages such as Python and Rust have added features such as pattern matching - in Perl, we're taking away even the current limited attempt at switch/case, and we don't have a replacement... ... oh, and now we're telling our users that they "have no business being coders", just because they had the temerity to follow previous advice such as https://perldoc.perl.org/5.28.0/perlfaq7#How-do-I-create-a-switch-or-case-statement ? Perhaps you should reconsider.Thread Previous | Thread Next