Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl
Paul Wise wrote...
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>
> > In 5.18, upstream decided to discourage usage of smart matches and
> > given..when after these have existed since 5.10 (or: more than six
> > years) by marking them as experimental, and did this in a very harsh
> > way. This will drive me away from using Perl as my preferred
> > programming language.
>
> I'm using this comment and one-liner to workaround this issue:
>
> # Silence warnings about smartmatch being experimental
> # The smartmatch we use works under recent Perl versions
> no if $] >= 5.017011, warnings => 'experimental::smartmatch';
Yes, but it's one of those "none of them is really charming".
I did this, but it's BAD. It required changing each affected file. It
hides messages that might be important in a future release. It will
require a second walk through each file.
Upstream's message so far is: "Don't use new features, even if they've
been out for years." I'm not keen on products where the developers
show such an attitude against their users *hint*
Christoph
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