Re: latest - Use the latest Perl features

Michael G Schwern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.module-build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ken Williams wrote:
> Boy, that latest.pm
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Eric Wilhelm<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It's been brought to my attention that our 'inc/latest.pm' might cause
>> some confusion with:
>>
>>  http://search.cpan.org/~andya/latest-0.02/lib/latest.pm
> 
> The one on CPAN is sure silly.  Aside from duplicating Modern::Perl,
> it suffers from the same basic limitation (downfall?) that in 2 years
> it can't still be "the latest" unless it breaks its contract about
> what it does.

The contract is "use the latest Perl features" not "use the features of the
Perl you were using when you wrote this code".  It might be a silly contract,
but you signed it. :)


> In any case, I'm fine with the suggested change to our thingy.

As am I.


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