Was Perl destoyed when require was added? Was it destroyed when use and proper module support supplanted the most common uses of require? What about when the /x flag was added for regexes? Did adding say, pragmas, Encode, perlio layers, or tied variables destroy the language?

How exactly does adding syntax that's been under development and testing as a module for years to the core destroy a language? Did Turbo Pascal destroy Pascal? Did the ANSI C changes destroy C? Did the extensions in glibc and in the GNU coreturils package destroy Unix? Did Bash 4 destroy Bash? Did Bash destroy the Bourne shell? Did adding DirectX, WSL, or Windows Defender destroy Windows? Please explain how in your thinking adding features you're not required to use in your own projects destroys a project. Perhaps I'm being dense today, but I don't see it.

In reply to Re^2: The Corinna RFC for getting modern OO into the Perl core is taking shape by mr_mischief
in thread The Corinna RFC for getting modern OO into the Perl core is taking shape by Ovid

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