Re: Perl 5.10: Safety of experimental features?


Quoth Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Perl 5.10.0 has been out long enough that it is no longer bleeding edge.
Some of the useful new features are labelled as experimental, suggesting
that they not be used in production code. However, the enhancements that
I'm interested in are also in Perl 6, albeit with different syntax.

Does anybody have a feel for which experimental features might plausibly
be removed in a hypothetical Perl 5.11 and which have been solid enough or
won enough acceptance that removal is unlikely?

I know for certain that smartmatch (and therefore 'when') will have
significantly different semantics in the future. I'm not sure whether
these changes will go into 5.10.1, but they'll certainly go into .2.

Beyond that, I suspect you'd be better off asking
perl5-porters@xxxxxxxxx

Ben

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