From: spamivore+ruby-lang@... Date: 2019-06-18T15:48:30+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:93226] [Ruby trunk Feature#5400] Remove flip-flops in 2.0 Issue #5400 has been updated by CodeGnome (Todd Jacobs). rovf (Ronald Fischer) wrote: > Do NOT remove this useful feature!!! I used it a lot already in Perl, and now using it in Ruby too. The deprecation warning also causes a lot of headache Very much this. I find the flip-flop operator extremely useful for text processing, and don't see *any* value-add to removing such a useful feature. If the problem is that the new explicit-line syntax or other changes have made it harder to use, or that the documentation on this useful feature is lacking, then that's a potentially useful bug. The OP's view that they don't use it, so the feature should be removed, is definitely something that would punish *me* personally. You're not alone in relying on this useful feature. The deprecation warning is also an anti-feature. It makes a legitimate language feature look like a bug. That helps nobody. I hope the flip-flop operator stays, and that the deprecation warning gets removed. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5400: Remove flip-flops in 2.0 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5400#change-78678 * Author: judofyr (Magnus Holm) * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) * Target version: Next Major ---------------------------------------- Nobody knows them. Nobody uses them. Let's just get rid of flip-flops, shall we? -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: