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demerphq
Date:
March 31, 2023 09:28
Subject:
Re: Deprecation doesn't mean we have two release cycles beforethings break.
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 01:24, Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 09:12:42PM +0200, demerphq wrote:
> > To revert the deprecations?  Seems simple enough I guess I dont mind
> > picking it up.
>
> I looked at removing the deprecation warning for ' in symbols, while
> leaving it documented as deprecated (since we're planning on actually
> deprecating it, right?), but new tests prevent that.
>

We can adjust those warnings, right? I suspect i might have been involved
in creating those tests, but regardless, what man can make he can unmake,
at least in software. :-)


> Another option would be to completely undeprecate ' in symbols, and
> make it a default on feature like indirect or multidimensional, and
> disable it for 5.40, since I don't think some of the problem CPAN
> distributions will ever be updated by their authors.
>

Ah, that does make some sense, would it also work ok with smartmatch you
think?

cheers,
Yves

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