On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, April 15, 2010 4:09 pm, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > > Honestly, if you're setting up a blank machine next week with less than > > 5.10, not finding Perl6::Say in the index is going to be the least of > > your problems anyway. But you should be able to purchase some > > complaint tokens if you really need them. > > I believe RedHat still ships with 5.8.8... (Not that I'd run RedHat by > choice if Perl were a consideration at all.) I don't know about others. > In general the larger and more commercial the vendor the further behind > I'd expect them to be. > > In general I'm for putting in a depreciated warning for some period before > final removal of any public API. > > If run under 5.10 or newer does it actually conflict with the builtin "say"? I'd say (pun intended) that it should fall through to the builtin if run in a Perl version that has it, and give a warning.
