On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Alex Becker wrote: > Dear all, > > Perl now has subroutine signatures. However, they are marked as > experimental feature. > As I really like it, I'm always tempted to use it. > On the other hand, I don't want to wast efforts to something I have to roll > back. > > So, does anyone know the tendency if signatures are going to stay? > > I'm not looking for the standard "do if you want to do it because > TIMTOWTDI" answer, it will not help me. I'm looking for rumors, or > eventually an assessment from the people who did the feature?
Rumours, I can do. Or perhaps start. The signatures are nice. I have used them on a shortish, ~1000 line script and I have been mostly happy with them. They save a lot of boilerplate. There was one small change I needed to make between 5.20 and 5.22 because the ordering with respect to prototypes changed. I also noted that some error messages were less accurate than before, though I haven't had time to narrow that down into a proper bug report. My best guess is that the feature will remain and there will be small changes before it is brought out of experimental status. But there might be larger changes that wouldn't be completely backwards compatible. Or the feature may be completely scrapped. That's the risk you take with experimental features. But there is certainly a will to make this feature stick. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
