[EXPERIMENT] subroutine signatures

[p5pRT]

Migrated from rt.perl.org#121481 (status was 'open')

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[p5pRT]

From @rjbs

Subroutine signatures are being added as an experimental feature in perl
5.20.0. This ticket will collect bugs and other acceptance-criteria tickets to
track before subroutine signatures can be considered accepted or failed in a
future version of perl.

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rjbs

[p5pRT]

From zefram@fysh.org

The experiment ticket [perl #121481] should depend on [perl #132141].

-zefram

[p5pRT]

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

[alanrocker]

What's the current status, (experimental), and is it likely to change soon? I'd like to know whether to include signatures when teaching Perl to beginners. 6 versions (5.20 - 5.30) would seem like enough to decide what should be accepted and what should be deprecated. Subroutine attributes and how to describe them is possibly a separate feature?

[cxw42]

Agreed. #16161 ([perl #132141]), the only referenced bug, is fixed in 5.27.8 per #16161 (comment) .

[iabyn]

See the current a big discussion on the p5p mailing list entitled "Jumbo Signatures extensions discussion".

[cxw42]

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