Re: Major change approaching - what to add?

On Dec 2, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem with this is that 'new perls' means 'not
> backwards-compatible language changes' which is a problem for people
> with existing code written to work with 'old perls'.

There are very few backwards-incompatible changes in Perl. Many of us would like to see even more, as the inherent conservatism slows language development. OTOH, when I need to update an old system, I’m really grateful that I rarely have to change anything -- fix new warnings, most often.

Best,

David