Re: [FWP] awww, no fun :(

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes:

Michael> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:41:56PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
>> Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> > This feature should probably be deprecated and the warning
>> > on sub foo { last } be made more severe.
>> 
>> Uh, while it's reasonable to talk about rethinking it for
>> perl6, I really don't want to see it deprecated in perl5.

Michael> Why?  What do you use it for?

Is that the appropriate question?  If it's not keeping you from
writing code, and there's little or no support cost to keeping it
working, then it doesn't need to be deprecated in Perl5.  After all,
it's been around since Perl1 (or Perl2?).  Warn yes.  Change no.
Somebody might still be counting on it working.  What good does it do
to break that?

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