in reply to Could perl have a "do these files contain experimental/deprecated features" flag?

According to this many/most experimental features already produce warnings.

But I have to say that I wonder what you would do with the information produced by such a flag.

There are several experimental features I've simply refused to use because it was too confusing to understand their syntax rules; or too unreliable in use: eg. smartmatch.

But if I found a module that did something I needed to do; but noticed it used smartmatching to do it; that wouldn't stop me using it provided it appeared to work correctly.


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