How about declaring smartmatch as "discouraged" instead? From https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy#discouraged: --- discouraged From time to time, we may mark language constructs and features which we consider to have been mistakes as discouraged. Discouraged features aren't currently candidates for removal, but we may later deprecate them if they're found to stand in the way of a significant improvement to the Perl core. --- I think it meets this criterion.Thread Previous | Thread Next