Re: perl 5.6.0 stdlib stats

[Nathan Torkington]

Leon Brocard writes:
> In an effort to avoid organising YAPC::Europe, I went through the 126
> modules with documentation in Perl 5.6.0's lib/ directory and
> documented what kind of interface they provided. Not all of them
> follow perlstyle, and I think perl6's standard libraries should. But
> anyway, here goes...

Very interesting!

> * How many are deprecated?
> 
>       3       deprecated
>         Why are these still around?

Backwards compatibility.

Nat