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It seems to me that the low hanging fruit is to make Perl 5.38 issue very explicit "deprecation" warnings for any code using smartmatch/etc, instead of saying "experimental". Also the documentation can be updated at the same time which suggests alternatives for each of the smartmatch/etc use cases that already work now. Some of these may be more verbose while other common ones may not be. Worst case scenario, they can always be replaced with if/else chains or such. A more concise and well designed replacement for smartmatch/etc may be coming later, but in the meantime people can still be much more strongly and explicitly encouraged to not use the deprecated smartmatch/etc. Then the tendency of the existing or new codebases to use smartmatch/etc would have a tendency to shrink rather than grow, especially in CPAN modules, which would be a positive development regardless of any other developments such as a replacement being made. -- Darren DuncanThread Previous | Thread Next