SPUG: bwahaaa deprecations in 5.12

Michael R. Wolf MichaelRWolf at att.net
Wed Apr 14 22:29:51 PDT 2010


On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Andrew Sweger wrote:

> Numerous Perl 4-era libraries:
>
> "During final testing before the release of 5.12.0, several developers
> discovered current production code using these ancient libraries, some
> inside the Perl core itself. Accordingly, the pumpking granted them  
> a stay
> of execution. They will begin to warn about their deprecation in the
> 5.14.0 release and will be removed in the 5.16.0 release."
>
> Even stuff like this (the attention to detail) is why I love Perl. I  
> can't
> help but wonder what Perl will be like in 50 years.

The great thing about multitesting is that several wrong things can go  
at once.

:-)

> -- 
> Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
>                                things can go wrong at once.

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
     All mammals learn by playing!
         MichaelRWolf at att.net






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