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Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 02:11:20AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>>The "//" operator was added in perl 5.10. I'm not sure what you found
>>that makes you think the ship has sailed. The only hits for "//" I see
>>look like the end of substitution regexes ("s/foo//" and similar).
>>
> grep with spaces around the operator, then you can see the instance in
> git-credential-netrc.perl easily.

Good find, but given the relative prevalence in use between netrc
helper and send-email, my conclusion is rather opposite.  It seems
to indicate that avoiding "//" would still be prudent if the only
tool we can find find broken on 5.008 is the netrc helper.