In that case, it was always a bug, it just wasn't reported by Perl as such.

Maybe it wasn't reported as a bug because it was a feature? I'm curious how "fixing" that particular "bug" really improved Perl? Does it 1) make new things possible, or 2) make things that should have worked function properly, or does it just remove one of a million shortcuts and 3) break the holy grail: CPAN? (I understand what is "wrong" with for qw(), but don't care! DWIM)

if you are interested in actually fixing the problems

My preferences in order: 

1. Someone never decided to cause this problem.
2. Someone with more power and skill fixes the problem.
   a. Repair Perl backwards compatability.
   b. Repair CPAN distributions.
3. I fix the problem locally and am happy that it works.
4. I have to work to fix the problem for everyone.
I know you want me to do 4 because of 3 but I'm looking at 1 with an occasional glance at 2a =)

In reply to Re^4: p5p vs CPAN by Anonymous Monk
in thread p5p vs CPAN by Anonymous Monk

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