Hi all, thank you for the valuable feedback.
I guess I will have to fall for the secure side and not using signatures at the moment. Although I do have control over the build system, I do not want to cap the Perl version, not allowing to use a new version anytime soon (in the worst case). Hopefully, signatures will be non-experimental soon. I'm really looking forward to get rid of boilerplate code. Best regards, Alex 2015-07-23 12:04 GMT+02:00 Andrew Solomon <and...@geekuni.com>: > I think that if you're considering using signatures make sure you read > this first > > > http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2015/04/use-v5-20-subroutine-signatures/ > > The bottom line is that they're experimental so you should expect that > your code will need some modifications as new Perl releases come out. > > Choosing whether to use signatures should therefore be determined by the > how rigorous your release testing is, and how critical the dependencies > are. > > Andrew > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Alex Becker <asb.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > Perl now has subroutine signatures. However, they are marked as >> experimental >> > feature. >> > As I really like it, I'm always tempted to use it. >> > On the other hand, I don't want to wast efforts to something I have to >> roll >> > back. >> > >> > So, does anyone know the tendency if signatures are going to stay? >> > >> > I'm not looking for the standard "do if you want to do it because >> TIMTOWTDI" >> > answer, it will not help me. I'm looking for rumors, or eventually an >> > assessment from the people who did the feature? >> >> This is either the first I've heard of this or I just drink too much. >> One thing that I notice is that the "Signatures" section seems quite >> early and long in the perlsub documentation for such an experimental >> and new feature. I know that when I first learned Perl (which was 5.x) >> I did so largely by reading the core perldocs almost like a tutorial. >> Reading the perlsub now I might quickly forget that signatures are >> experimental after glossing over the warning and relating the sizable >> signatures documentation to other languages. A beginner to Perl might >> consider that the norm or recommended option (after their nightly beer >> erases the whole "experimental" disclaimer). It seems to me that >> "Signatures" should be towards the end (I mean, do experienced Perl >> programmers go to these core documents to discover new features or >> hear about them from mailing lists and the like and then look them up >> explicitly as I did!?). >> >> As for rumors, this is the first that I've heard of it, but it sounds >> like a relatively safe feature to use assuming they haven't overlooked >> anything critical in terms of parsing the signature from the language. >> And I can't imagine anything that would break it. It's probably safe >> assuming you can require such a modern perl. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> -- >> Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> >> Castopulence Software <https://www.castopulence.org/> >> Blog <http://www.bambams.ca/> >> perl -E '$_=q{V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. }. >> q{Vg qbrfa'\''g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl.}; >> tr/A-Ma-mN-Zn-z/N-Zn-zA-Ma-m/;say' >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >> >> > > > -- > Andrew Solomon > > Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon >
