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> Among 700.000 lines, 192 isn't that much either,

Backwards compatibility?

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Re^9: RFC: "assignary" operator ?= : (backward compatibility)
by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 10, 2019 at 13:18 UTC
    Backwards compatibility?

    Core modules need not to be written in a backaward compatible way in terms of operators they use. The core must be backward compatible wrt third party modules and existing code bases outside of itself.

    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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      I'd say most core modules are older than the // operator.

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