Dual-life and autodie (Pumpking input appreciated)

Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:50:48PM +1000, Paul Fenwick wrote:
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* Nobody cares about autodie going in the core for 5.8.9 or 5.10.1,
although since it's tremendously better than Fatal, it would be nice if
it did.

Executive summary: I don't know.


Long rambling:

1) It's not my decision.
2) I don't have any compelling arguments either way.
3) But if I were to decide, and only my opinion counted, I would only put
things in the core that are either thightly coupled with the internals
(and hence may need major work if the internals change), are required
to build/test/install Perl, or are required to bootstrap fetching modules
from CPAN. course, then the modules currently in "core" would be quite
smaller. ;-)
4) I haven't looked how autodie is implemented, so I don't even know whether
it would fit my own criteria for inclusion in the alternate reality where
I am the perl release dictator.


Abigail