years and decades, but not at the expense of our user community.
Existing syntax and semantics should only be marked for destruction in
-very limited circumstances. If they can be easily replaced, are
-believed to be very rarely used, and stand in the way of actual
-improvement to the Perl language or perl interpreter, they may be
-considered for removal. When in doubt, caution dictates that we will
-favor backward compatibility. When a feature is deprecated, a
-statement of reasoning describing the decision process will be posted,
-and a link to it will be provided in the relevant perldelta documents.
+very limited circumstances. If they believed to be very rarely used,
+stand in the way of actual improvement to the Perl language or perl
+interpreter, and if affected code can be easily updated to continue
+working, they may be considered for removal. When in doubt, caution
+dictates that we will favor backward compatibility. When a feature is
+deprecated, a statement of reasoning describing the decision process
+will be posted, and a link to it will be provided in the relevant
+perldelta documents.
Using a lexical pragma to enable or disable legacy behavior should be
considered when appropriate, and in the absence of any pragma legacy