Re: What about Perl autodie?

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.)

regards, tom lane