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Unstable magic (Score:1)

by jjore (6662) <twists@gmail.com> on 2007.12.27 1:51 (#59725) Homepage Journal

Devel::Declare strikes me as likely to be unstable magic. It messes with the yy* parts of the parser during its operation. How likely is /that/ to keep working?

I've always looked at that part of perl and gone "OMG, this is nasty looking" so perhaps this is not as horrible as I'm imagining. I just don't think it's the kind of thing of which stable software is made. In a year from now if it continues to work on 5.6 -> 5.11 I guess I could believe it then. There'll be more than enough unanticipated delta to stress this thing out.

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  by schwern (1528)
  
  You'd have to ask Matt Trout for details, I know he has plans to move as much magic as possible out of the C hack and into Perl. At least it's stable with any given release of Perl. It's not like those exactly SNEAK up on us.

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