Re: What about Perl autodie?

On 08.02.24 07:03, Tom Lane wrote:
> John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 11:52 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> No drawbacks. I've been using it heavily for many, many years. Came out in 5.10.1,
>>> which should be available everywhere at this point (2009 was the year of release)
>
>> We moved our minimum to 5.14 fairly recently, so we're good on that point.
>
> Yeah, but only recently. I'm a little worried about the value of this
> change relative to the amount of code churn involved, and more to the
> point I worry about the risk of future back-patches injecting bad code
> into back branches that don't use autodie.
>
> (Back-patching the use of autodie doesn't seem feasible, since before
> v16 we supported perl 5.8.something.)

Yeah, good points. I suppose we could start using it for completely new
scripts.