It doesn't make Perl's management look efficient
It's very little to do with management (efficient or otherwise), and mainly to do with lack of manpower. Specifically there's a whole bunch of stuff I am aware of that needs pinning down and then implementing, before signatures can become non-experimental.

As one example, consider the behaviour of @_ within the body of a signatured sub. Should it still contain the full argument list (but then you incur the cost of setting up and restoring @_ for each call), or be empty (you still have a setup/restore cost), or be untouched and still have the value it had before the current function was called? Should accessing / modifying @_ trigger a warning, or even be fatal? What happens when a function is called via the argless &foo; mechanism - for each of the combinations of caller/callee being an ordinary/signatured sub? If @_ isn't populated, how can the sub tell whether a particular arg got passed a real undef value or no value? Should the behaviour of @_ be controllable? If so, should that be via a pragma or some new syntax within the signature? (Those are all rhetorical questions - I don't want to get into a debate about signature semantics here.)

Until all that has been decided and implemented, we don't know how @_ will change, so can't mark it as non-experimental.

Deciding and implementing all that is currently in my balliwick, and I only have so much time.

Dave.

In reply to Re^4: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by dave_the_m
in thread Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Crosis

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