Re^4: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden

Thanks! Personally I never used it because I had too many problems with experimental features in the past.

I haven't found out the discussions regarding any debates on this particular topic,

But I'm still interested to know where the new syntax led to problems. :)

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Re^5: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden by stevieb (Canon) on May 21, 2017 at 20:31 UTC
I'm on many tangents at the moment so I don't have the time to forge through to find it, but often, you can find discussion links within the `perlexperiment` documents for each version, as well as `perldelta` docs. I'll have some time later, so state whether you've found something or not. If not, I'll dig up some conversations on the topic later when I can and post back. I typically keep up with these things, but a long time has passed and I've forgotten. All this despite the fact I rarely ever use features beyond perl 5.8.9, unless I'm literally testing the experiments to learn (postderef was one I toyed with amongst many), or things I use for quick one-off test scripts while testing my distributions (`say()` out of 5.10 for example).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden by tobyink (Canon) on May 21, 2017 at 21:51 UTC
`state` (added in Perl 5.10) can be really nice. Reference aliasing (added in Perl 5.22) is also awesome, but seems too new to rely on. In quick mock-ups, I often find myself using `package Foo::Bar { ... }` syntax (added in Perl 5.14) but that's trivial to replace with `{ package Foo::Bar; ... }` before distributing the code.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden by KurtZ (Friar) on May 21, 2017 at 21:05 UTC
Thanks and no worries! :) My question wasn't directed especially at you but at the general audience here. And haukex already provided some good pointers.	[reply]