I doubt it's complicated to transform ...

Not at all in one line of a 20-line script. But to do it reliably across many files in a 1,000,000 line codebase without breaking anything? That's a different matter entirely. Never mind the shops who are running 15-year-old Perl systems with no Perl maintainer on the books.

a similar discussion like use v7; was.

Quite so. I applaud the enthusiasm of those who proposed it but to do so in a language which has always striven for backwards compatibility was inevitably going to be a big task. For every agile developer crying, "Throw it all out!" there is a sysadm or project manager with a legacy burden screaming "Keep it all in!".

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In reply to Re^7: sort AoH buggy? (deprecation candidate) by hippo
in thread sort AoH buggy? by LanX

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