From: Eric Wong Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:29:20 +0000 (-0400) Subject: doc: technical/whyperl: update w/ (good) news from PSC X-Git-Tag: v1.7.0~809 X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ccc021183fe691c3229ff36e54ded8b305fcb71;p=public-inbox.git doc: technical/whyperl: update w/ (good) news from PSC It looks like stability and compatibility will prevail, after all. --- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt b/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt index de6f912a..fbe2e1b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/whyperl.txt @@ -66,9 +66,11 @@ Good Things Perl had fewer breaking changes than Python or Ruby; we expect that trend to continue given the inertia of Perl 5. - Note: this document was written before the Perl 7 announcement. - We'll continue to monitor and adapt to the situation around - what distros are doing in regard to maintaining compatibility. + As of April 2021, the Perl Steering Committee has confirmed + Perl 7 will require `use v7.0' and existing code should + continue working unchanged: + https://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/259789 + * Built for text processing