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On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 04:44:16 +0000 Zefram via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote: > Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote: > >Yes; that is exactly the point. We wanted it to have (what you call) > >the "hard stricture" behaviour in 5.36. > > Whatever you wanted, "use v5.36" on actual Perl 5.36 actually exhibits > soft stricture behaviour. That's the established meaning of "use > v5.36", and to change it to hard stricture would be a break of > backcompat. Ahyes; it seems my memory of this was wrong. I was remembering having actually changed the behaviour, rather than simply having *intended* to at some future time. The boundary should sit at 5.37, you're right. ... > Perhaps you're seeing my patch as "fixing" and "reverting" these > versions because you're seeing it as a replacement for some other > patch, planned but never applied to blead, that would have changed > the effects of those declarations? > > > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20944 > > The change of the stricture behaviour threshold from 5.37 to 5.35 > would be a break of backcompat, and is a bad idea. Yes; I'll undo that second part. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next