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Re^3: Announcing Perl 7by salva (Canon) |
on Jun 26, 2020 at 14:58 UTC ( [id://11118564]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
"new" modules will have a metatag "Perl 7" IMO, that just over-complicates everything. What would happen with modules that are not packed? That's quite common for private applications, having all the modules (*.pm files) placed in a tree of directories, probably under some VCS. Could I write new modules for that application in Perl 7 while keeping the old ones untouched? Supporting different Perl versions has been a solved problem for a long time: you just add "use 7" at the beginning of every perl script or module and that activates the specific semantics for that version. It is reliable and minimal. For those that believe that adding "use 7" is too much boilerplate, think what would happen when the slightly incompatible 7.01 comes out?
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