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in thread If Perl 5 were to become Perl 7, what (backward-compatible) features would you want to see?

>> I would never do that because it seems malicious

> And I would never ascribe hatefulness

I'm ascribing those qualities to myself, if I were to deprecate, and how it would feel. I don't know why others do it. I just wish they would stop.

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