At 12:30 AM 8/5/00 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>Someone wrote:
> > > How about "Deprecate use of file globbing with angle brackets. Emit a
> > > warning when this behaviour is used."
>
>I want to RFC this, but I feel like starting a new language with
>deprecated behaviours is a Bad Move. The whole damn point is so we
>can get away from all the deprecated crud in perl5.
Amen. Nothing pre-deprecated. Nothing of the ilk, "We can start out this
way, then after a few more versions we can get rid of it when people are
used to the better way." No "Let's put both in, wait a while, and take out
the one that gets used the least."
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!
--- Miranda (The Tempest, V(i))
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
