Python discusses deprecations
Python discusses deprecations
Posted Dec 13, 2021 14:50 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Python discusses deprecations by pebolle
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I dunno. After the usual pile of weird and impractical suggestions (because that's how development of almost anything *works*, it's just that this is in the open), it's converged on something reasonable: you get Perl 5 unless you say 'use 7'. i.e., the backward compatibility policy is unchanged, which means that you can expect everyone to upgrade to Perl 7 sooner or later, replacing Perl 5 completely, without worrying about things breaking or having to do massive audits of code nobody's looked at in twenty years and whose sole maintainer died of oxygen abuse ten years ago.
Posted Dec 13, 2021 16:15 UTC (Mon)
by pebolle (guest, #35204)
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I seem to remember that at one point some people suggested yet another split (i.e., a third version of Perl).
> it's converged on something reasonable: you get Perl 5 unless you say 'use 7'. i.e., the backward compatibility policy is unchanged,
I remember that too, and I also found it reasonable. But did anything actually happen? Has a decision been made to do a v7.0.0 instead of, say, v5.40.0? Nothing like that was mentioned on lwn.net.
Posted Dec 13, 2021 17:59 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Python discusses deprecations
Python discusses deprecations