Joseph Brenner

• Website: obsidianrook.com/map/
• About: Perl programmer since 5.0, fan of postgresql, abuser of emacs.

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• Commented on What happened to Perl 7?
  It's excellent to have this clarified-- some people haven't gotten the word that the consensus is to stay with backwards compatibility-- I was talking to some folks who you would think would know better who were expecting some major breakage...

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• Dimitrios Kechagias commented on What happened to Perl 7?

  IMHO announcing Perl 7, which was picked up by the non-perl community as clear "signs of life" from what they thought of as an irrelevant/dying language, and then taking it back was quite a big step backwards, so I'd thought we'd want to rectify that as quickly as possible.
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• Elvin Aslanov commented on What happened to Perl 7?

  See https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19705

• Smylers commented on What happened to Perl 7?

  Thank you for such a clear update. As somebody who only manages intermittently to follow what's happening with the Perl core, this is really useful, and explains several things I'd be wondering about.