my reading of the original post talked about 'functions' that had been deprecated, and that made me think of actual keywords (like split, for example -- which has *not* been removed, obviously) that had been removed from the language, causing breakage.

Yes, that's true, and a quick skim of the docs shows that might apply to Unqualified dump() and File::Glob::glob() will disappear (plus, it's not deprecated, but study hasn't had any use for a while now). I was looking at this from the angle of breakages, and I remember following some of the P5P threads when things were removed that caused breakages on CPAN. For modules that are high upstream on the CPAN River, patches were submitted, and for other packages, bugs were filed on RT.

In reply to Re^4: How Perl revolve by haukex
in thread How should Perl revolve? by xiaoyafeng

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