On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 4:24 PM Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book@cpan.org> wrote: > For completeness, I have (finally) looked in the archives for previous > proposals for the same feature. It used to be called "safe dereference" > or "safe arrow", and was discussed over a decade ago. > Hi BooK! Yes, when I turned this pre-RFC into a proper RFC draft I did my research and eventually uncovered those past references too. I have used them not only to update that (and other) parts of the draft but also to include in the FAQ many of the past arguments and design decisions made to - hopefully - overcome them and get the proposal accepted. https://github.com/Perl/RFCs/pull/23 https://github.com/garu/RFCs/blob/garu/optional-chaining/rfcs/rfc0018.md#rejected-ideas Speaking of which, what are the next steps? Thanks! garuThread Previous | Thread Next