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> From: Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com>


> There's a bug in use_ok() that effects 0.98_01 and 1.5.  So I'm going to 
> hold
> off on a new alpha for a day or two and it's either fixed or I'll roll 
> it back.
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67538#txn-1002509


Ah, just saw this. As I've already said privately, but maybe we can see how 
others feel, this is a PERFECT time to discourage use_ok and require_ok and 
even deprecate them (though I doubt we can remove them completely).

They've been broken for a long time, people have to work around their 
limitations, and they don't add value.

http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/39859

I'm hard-pressed to think of a better time to at least slip a note in the docs 
that their use is discouraged.

Cheers,
Ovid

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