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in thread Is auto-dereferencing worth forcing upgrades to newer versions of Perl?

I'm pretty sure that strict-or-not, you'll get a compile-time syntax error if you try this on Perls earlier than 5.14. You'd have quite a struggle to find existing Perl code that this change broke.

I don't think it's a good feature, but it's a freeture, not a feeture.

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name
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