Re^3: Sometimes I'd Rather Punch Myself in the Head

[xdg]

in reply to Re^2: Sometimes I'd Rather Punch Myself in the Head
in thread Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now

I don't like "feature" so much myself, but I can live with it as long as use 5.010 also does use feature ':5.010'. I think it's helpful if code is explicit about the version it expects because then it also fails somewhat gracefully if attempted on older Perls.

Of course, what's I'd also like is this, eventually:

use 5.012;  # strict on, warnings on, features up to 5.12 on

[chromatic]

I could get used to that idea as well. I don't like the idea of multiplying even more entities to get nice features that should be the default -- having to add use feature 'class'; to every lexical scope containing one or more class keywords along with use strict; and use warnings; gives up some of the gains of adding the keyword!

If the only pragma I had to use were use 5.012;, that's an improvement.

[zby]

Isn't that the same as what was proposed at the list by Steffen? And isn't it exactly the same idea as: use v6;?