But it's mainly a strike against shoving new features into the language without considering their consequences.

What do you mean by strike?

I've had eew experiences since 5.6, and with every new feature I try I'd always find something that doesn't quite work as documented, or isn't well documented, and I just end up not learning it, and doing things the way I've always done them.

For better and worse, Perl is a mature platform (like ANSI C), and should act it.

What does that mean?

For example a lot of the new regex features are really under documented and under tested, but they're really powerful, and if we waited for more thought/testing/docs they probably wouldn't have been added for another 5 years, even though a lot of them are still considered experimental

I think any new features ought to be experimental for at least 3 releases (5.6,5.8,5.10) and implemented only using Devel::Declare

I'm also in favor of ditching all the warts, if JavaScript can do it ... :)

In reply to Re: Measure twice, cut once by Anonymous Monk
in thread Measure twice, cut once by educated_foo

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