Re^9: RFC: "assignary" operator ?= : (backward compatibility)

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Backwards compatibility?

Core modules need not to be written in a backaward compatible way in terms of operators they use. The core must be backward compatible wrt third party modules and existing code bases outside of itself.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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Re^10: RFC: "assignary" operator ?= : (backward compatibility) by LanX (Saint) on Dec 10, 2019 at 13:38 UTC
I'd say most core modules are older than the `//` operator. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]

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