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doc/technical/whyperl: note Perl 7 announcement
authorEric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:44:52 +0000 (22:44 +0000)
committerEric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:01:31 +0000 (20:01 +0000)
commitfb17a1456179b92a309c66bf17b71cc4a6ea7bfc
treec1322e966e6ac964fca54dedbbb16ced14a5ed28
parentfb24cf5cfb4f4b85d1d22ccb60b8f4438f30065e
doc/technical/whyperl: note Perl 7 announcement

Right now[1] the Perl upstream plan is to maintain 5 compatibility
in Perl 7 for at least 5 years[1], and perhaps drop it when Perl 8
comes along.  That said, distros may pick it and maintain 5 on their
own given the vast amounts of perfectly good legacy code out there.

[1] http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/257817
[2] http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/257565
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