On Thursday 15 April 2010 03:45:49 James E Keenan wrote: > Recently I had occasion to discuss with Damian Conway whether the > continued presence of distribution Perl6::Say was still warranted. We > both agreed that it was time for this distro to retire to the backpan. [...] > But with the release of Perl 5.10.0 in December 2007, Perl6::Say's days > became numbered. Why say Perl6::Say::say() when you can simply say > say()?
I fully agree that there is no need to use Perl6::Say any more, but I'm not sure nuking it from CPAN entirely is the best course of action. Personally I'd rather see a new version with a big "Hey, this is deprecated, don't use this in new code; use the built-in say() from Perl 5.10 and above" notice on it. No need to potentially break anyone's code which relies upon Perl6::Say and cause them pain, IMO. (Especially if they happen to be stuck on an ancient Perl due to odd corporate rules or something.) Cheers Dave P -- David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/identica www.lyricsbadger.co.uk "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)
