Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > People have said this about ASLR, protected symlinks, and many other > kinds of security hardening changes. We made them anyway and took the > temporary pain for a long-term security gain.
Well, Perl has a deprecation mechanism with warnings and so forth, although I don't think Perl has ever actively broken a feature outside of "use <version>" with a later version, except for features marked as experimental. But I suppose it's possible. Good luck with that -- there was a long discussion about this when <<>> was introduced, and as one can tell, that viewpoint did not prevail. Maybe it's used less now and it might be easier to get rid of it? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
