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Re^3: The future of Perl?

by Arunbear (Prior)
on Nov 05, 2014 at 12:29 UTC ( #1106189=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: The future of Perl?
in thread The future of Perl?

The docs say:
WARNING: Subroutine signatures are experimental. The feature may be modified or removed in future versions of Perl.
... which doesn't exactly inspire confidence ;)

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Re^4: The future of Perl?
by Corion (Pope) on Nov 05, 2014 at 12:31 UTC

    I think the Perl developers have learned from given and smartmatch and keep new features labeled "experimental" to be able to remove them from the language again if they prove to be untractable.

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