It is not my demand, but it is what perl itself requires. I'm just guarding the innocent users that are stuck with old machines.

If you think requiring C89 is historic and stupid, please make that clear to the perl5 porters and try to convince them to update the documentation.

Personally I don't think it is worth quarreling about. The differences are too small to not try to comply to C89. You're just ruling yourself out for older systems. No harm in doing so, but then state so in the docs.

My personal grief extends not to the quality of this particular code, but the complete absence of courtesy. You do not delete RT requests that you don't agree with. You can reject them, and even say in a polite tone that you're not willing to comply to lower standards. Fine with decisions like that, but not the way it went.

I'm competent enough to fix C code to match old compilers I encounter, but I find it so pointless.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re^4: Shouldn't JSON be faster? by Tux
in thread Shouldn't JSON be faster? by sflitman

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