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Discussion on: 13 reasons why you should not use Perl

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Dave Cross • Edited

It was Perl 5.20 that introduced subroutine signatures (in 2014). And they're not widely used, I think, because they're still marked as experimental.

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Michele Beltrame

One thing I agree with, is that they likely should be not be marked "experimental" anymore. ;-)

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Dave Jacoby

Getting things from experimental to in and from deprecated to out are not tasks that happen in Perl.