I don't see a need to move to 5.12. I think I'll eventually advocate for that because of the lexical keyword API, but I don't have anything for that yet and I think that Zefram typically writes CPAN modules which provide the same C interfaces for older Perls.
The biggest Perl feature I would like to see is user-level pragmatic modules<http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpragma.html>, which come with 5.10. And actually, what I really want is warmings from a module<http://perldoc.perl.org/perllexwarn.html#Reporting-Warnings-from-a-Module>. AFAICT, that's been available since 5.6, so I suppose I/we could have started on that a long time ago. Heh. David On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]>wrote: > Without detailed information on who would be affected > by a change in the required/supported version of perl, > I would prefer to minimize disruption for PDL users. > For example, I do know that the older cygwin releases > used perl 5.10.x and a jump to 5.12 could make them > not able to use PDL. > > That said, if there is a specific need that could be > addressed by jumping to 5.12.x, that could justify > the change. Anything in mind---I haven't seen anything > myself. > > All is not bad, if we go to 5.10 support, we can finally > use 'say' ... :-) > > --Chris > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Craig DeForest > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why not bump to 5.12? > > > > (mobile) > > > > > > On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:42 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I propose moving to perl 5.10.x as the officially > >> supported perl version for general PDL development, > >> effective immediately. > >> > >> I don't expect this to affect the legacy PDL users > >> as they often are using PDL versions back as far > >> as 2.4.3. > >> > >> Comment, discussion, votes? > >> Chris > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PDL-porters mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/pdl-porters > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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