Hi hippo,

TL;DR: It was supposed to be "Use of getopt() is not recommended" all along.

  1. The discussion in RT#116098 resulted in getopt being not recommended, resulting in commit 0c0a84c (first in v5.19.0, part of v5.20.0), the wording was "The getopt() function is similar ... Its use is not recommended."
  2. RT#41359 doesn't deal with the getopt vs getopts issue, instead it's a different Getopt::Std documentation issue, the resulting patch 243ac78 (first in v5.19.3, part of v5.20.0) rewords the relevant paragraphs, but unfortunately contained a typo which said "Use of getopts() is not recommended" instead of "Use of getopt() is not recommended"
  3. I reported that typo and it was fixed in 624c6f9 (first in v5.21.4, part of v5.22.0). Unfortunately it does not seem to have made it into perl5220delta. Update: Although backporting the fix into the v5.20.x series was mentioned, it seems that didn't happen.

Regards,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re: GetOpt::Std change of recommended subroutine by haukex
in thread GetOpt::Std change of recommended subroutine by hippo

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