Note that using -M actually doesn't necessarily make the one-liners longer

Not for this example but the real win is not having to worry about -M at all once you have -ML.

breakage of the module was reported in #131571

Thanks for the history lesson. So Perl's appearance of backward compatability was an illusion due to not fatalizing deprecated bugs for 20 years? Bugs were mistaken for features: "So, this is something we're likely to see many times in this annual development cycle​: code that breaks because we're fatalizing a behavior we've tolerated for twenty years (+ 1 month)."

I see a lot of messages from recent versions of Perl about code that is "no longer allowed" and "forbidden" and even "illegal"! The code police have made easy things impossible. If you guys can't figure this out my chances are slim: 

haukex: At the moment, I don't have any good ideas for a replacement.
Corion: I'm not sure how to best implement the functionality of L.

In reply to Re^2: Perl 28 broke L: How to fix? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl 28 broke L: How to fix? by Anonymous Monk

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