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Hi there, On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Ricardo Signes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, at 04:45, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote: >> I think there's two things we need to do: >> >> 1) Make ~~ and given/when much louder about their "you shouldn't use >> this for new code" status; > > Agreed. Let's do that immediately? > >> 2) Create a better replacement > > I'm all for having a better replacement, but I continue to strongly oppose the idea that we *need* one to remove the old thing. > > I write a lot of Perl, and have since before smartmatch was introduced. I never used smartmatch for much. I have banned it from my projects. I have seen it largely unused. Nothing it does can't be done some other way already, although sometime more verbosely. We don't need a replacement, because *we have gotten along fine without using it for 20 years.* > > A replacement would be nice, if it's good, but it doesn't need to exist before we take the old thing out. My sentiments exactly. I briefly flirted with 'given'. In 2017 I abandoned it, and swore that it would be forever. Even if there's a new one, I doubt I'd take the risk. -- 73, Ged.Thread Previous | Thread Next