wait most certainly is not deprecated. Please don't make things like this up.

Perl developers have an official way to communicate what is and is not deprecated. That way is to put the deprecation into the documentation, and warnings. Were wait deprecated I would expect to see this fact documented on my machine in perldiag and where-ever else it appears. Which in this case would be perlfaq8, perlfunc, perlipc, perlport, perltoc, perlvar. The only warning is in perlport where it says that wait is not implemented on MacOS and VOS.

For a contrast, compare to $[ which really is deprecated. Looking for $[ in the documentation I find it in perldata (says deprecated), perldiag (says deprecated), perlembed (comment by line that breaks it), perlfaq4 (accidental match), perlport (accidental match), perltoc (part of a long list), and perlvar (says its use is discouraged).

An incidental note, respected books such as the Cookbook use wait liberally. If it is truly deprecated, then that is news to the people who maintain Perl!

All of which is a long way to say that I am one of the -- votes on your node, and I am for a good reason. Because you are giving wrong advice.

In reply to RE (tilly) 2: For all your forking needs.. by tilly
in thread For all your forking needs.. by reyjrar

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