Re: use deprecated;

[Aristotle]

Maybe you could provide the full http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=310337 URL in your POD. :)

I don't like the idea of your debug() — far too hackish a way to enable deprecation warnings. Probably the best option is to use warnings::register instead. Another idea would be a companion module which merely sets a package variable; it could be then both be used from all the usual places as well as autoenabled by adding -Mdeprecated::warn or some such to PERL5OPT.

Are you putting this on CPAN?

Btw, Craft is more or less obsolete, Code Catacombs is where code should be posted. See One Section to rule them all. for a discussion.

[halley]

I wasn't sure if Craft was active anymore, but the whole Monastery is getting pretty catacombish about where to put stuff. I sort of wish it was all just "discussion" or "code." But that's a separate conversation.

There are a thousand ways to flip the big debug() switch, and this is "sorta" the test that I settled on for the library I manage. I wanted the warnings to be invisible for uninitiated end-users, and to be visible to developers who didn't even know that deprecated.pm existed. It's a compromise, but it's all in a separate function. It'd be neat if 5.8.2 adopted it (or even just the concept) and they could do whatever they wanted with debug(), but I just wanted to get the thing done.