> Mind you, there's a bit going on here that I simply don't understand - especially posts by YourMother and LanX which appear to be angled towards provocation more than anything else.

Come on, I was making fun of Godwin's law, and I made clear it's ironic.

This whole thread isn't of big interest for me because nobody is planning to remove features from Perl 7, just readjusting pragma defaults.

Everything else smells like a conspiracy theory out of online hysteria.

Humor might help, don't you think?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^5: On Backwards Compatibility and Bareword Filehandles by LanX
in thread On Backwards Compatibility and Bareword Filehandles by jcb

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