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And how many people are going to start new perl projects after all existing codebases get broken? Especially considering their "values" now include breaking you
by throwaway2048 6y ago
And how many people are going to start new perl projects after all existing codebases get broken? Especially considering their "values" now include breaking your code all the time.
Nobody is going to hail perl 8 as the hot new thing, the only thing that will happen is this move killing perl off entirely.
- tyingq 6y agoAs far as I can tell, the changes being made are relatively easy to absorb. Either the right way, or by using a pragma/directive. Nothing there looks as drastic as the big changes from python 2 to 3, for example.