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As far as I understood is the idea that you will still be capable to switch off the new default pragmas.

like no warnings

Tho I don't know if this will work with :prototype() too.

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I really hope they won't introduce the experimental function signatures, since they lack named arguments.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^3: Announcing Perl 7
by haj (Vicar) on Jun 24, 2020 at 20:50 UTC
    I really hope they won't introduce the experimental function signatures, since they lack named arguments.
    That's strange. Why would you block a thing which is considered useful by quite a few Perlers only because some feature isn't available right now? Wouldn't it be better to suggest a parseable syntax how to write named arguments?
      As soon as it is official, it'll be very hard to introduce named arguments.

      I don't care a lot about most of the fancy stuff Dave wants to implement, but "named args" are crucial.

      IMHO 10% of the extra effort but 90% of the benefit.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

        So perhaps a more positive way of putting it would be "I hope they wait until named arguments are working before they make it official." I would agree with that.