Ken Williams wrote: > Boy, that latest.pm > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Eric Wilhelm<scratchcomput...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> It's been brought to my attention that our 'inc/latest.pm' might cause >> some confusion with: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/~andya/latest-0.02/lib/latest.pm > > The one on CPAN is sure silly. Aside from duplicating Modern::Perl, > it suffers from the same basic limitation (downfall?) that in 2 years > it can't still be "the latest" unless it breaks its contract about > what it does.
The contract is "use the latest Perl features" not "use the features of the Perl you were using when you wrote this code". It might be a silly contract, but you signed it. :) > In any case, I'm fine with the suggested change to our thingy. As am I. -- There will be snacks.
