I concur with this. However, you can always check in on the status and future viability of experiments, along with all current/accepted/rejected experiments by reading the most current dev version (which is at this time, 5.23) of perlexperiment. You can then drill down from there to the actual ticket for the experiment to check in on how things are going.

I'm not sure if accepted experiments are candidates for further changes, but perlexperment does say the following: "These features were so wildly successful and played so well with others that we decided to remove their experimental status and admit them as full, stable features in the world of Perl, lavishing all the benefits and luxuries thereof. They are also awarded +5 Stability and +3 Charisma.". Does anyone know if once deemed 'stable', that they won't change again?

Update: I found the answer in perlpolicy. It doesn't look like an accepted experiment is subject to further change: "a feature present in v5.20.0 may be marked no longer experimental in v5.22.0 if and only if its behavior is unchanged throughout all of v5.21."/Update

The particular experiment discussed in this thread, "Array and hash container functions accept references", hasn't had a ticket update since 2013, but it's still listed as a current experiment as they steamroll toward the v5.24 official release.

Note that ikegami in Re^2: each on reference is experimental at said that this feature may be has been deprecated/ removed, and he's someone I'd definitely listen to for such matters. dave_the_m has also confirmed this in the note following this one.

-stevieb

In reply to Re^2: each on reference is experimental at by stevieb
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