My general recommendation is that you should start all code with those two pragmata.

Before I am too misunderstood, let me be clear that I agree with the recommendation. I disagree with flipping the defaults that have been in place for decades and telling people code which doesn't work under the new defaults is bad code.

Forget strict, look at what they are proposing with changing the syntax for prototypes. Are you telling me it's impossible to add signatures to the language without changing prototypes? I don't buy that. It might not come out as pretty, but for a language as old as perl, compatible is worth more than pretty. It boggles my mind that they call out postfix dereferencing as a benefit of perl7 in the p7 announcement post, since that doesn't need any feature flags in perl today:

perl -e '$x = [1,2,3]; print $x->@*'

...which makes it a great example of how you can innovate in the language while respecting what it already is.

In reply to Re^5: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by WaywardCode
in thread Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by WaywardCode

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