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To be on topic:

Perl7 is basically the idea to modernize saner settings by default. And breaking backcompat where it hurts. But it's far off a modern perl, like cperl is. They failed to fix the worst historical design mistakes. The hashes, the OO, types, @_, attrs before signatures (which was a major breaking change, but they excused themselves by claiming it was experimental), and many more.

https://github.com/perl11/cperl/issues/414

Instead they are breaking indirect method calls. Thanksfully this will be not POSIX, so nobody will use it.




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