in reply to Writing for backwards compatibility
Speaking as someone who is (at least currently) tethered to 5.005_03, I've got to speak up for how utterly annoying it is to find modules out there that needlessly use fairly pointless new features (specifically our, but also, to a certain extent use/no warnings).
Don't get me wrong, lexical filehandles and 3-arg open are hugely nice, and I can't really argue with that. But how many modules out there just use our for no reason whatsoever, other than to force perl 5.5ers to have to edit the module before using it?
------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq
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