On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:49:22 -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:40:15AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:52:12PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:14:01PM -0000, Nils wrote: > > > > > > Switch should be fixed or removed from Core. It is a serious > > > > liability. > > > > > > Umm, since removing it would also break programs that say "use Switch;", > > > I don't see the benefit (nor would it help existing perl versions). > > > So I'd vote for having it be fixed. > > > > It would be good if someone who understands it were able to do this. > > I actually meant something more like "I'd vote for leaving it in until > it gets fixed, howsoever long that be." :) FWIW I have far encountered too many problems with Switch, esp in combination with dor, to be daring enough to rely on it. I just don't use it anymore. > > [Prerequisites on this task being either understanding and time, or just > > a lot of time] > > I would fall into the requiring "a lot of time" category. And I think that next to "time" and "understanding", one certainly needs "motivation", something completely absent on this side of the keyboard for that module. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.3, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3, SuSE 9.0 pro 2.4.21 & Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: [email protected], perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
