> On Oct 29, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Rowan Tommins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think the problem is that as soon as you have two engines targeting
> different feature sets, it will be hard to persuade people to spend equal
> attention on both. If all the new features end up being added to one engine,
> the other one is going to increasingly feel like "legacy mode", rather than
> "equal but different".
That is a fair point.
> It would be much better to keep it separate, and opt into it via a declare()
> statement, or a package configuration, or a file extension. There have been
> proposals for a single flag, lots of separate flags, a complete "P++"
> dialect, or bundles of settings ("Editions").
Correct me if I am wrong, but all of those have been objected to, strenuously,
by at least several people on the list.
What will it take to finally get enough consensus to move forward?
> Both/all modes should get the same performance improvements, except where the
> actual features are necessarily slower or faster.
Fine. But a pre-compiler still could have merit.
One of the things I would like to see from a pre-compiler is getting rid of the
need to deal with an autoloader and hence we able to store multiple related
classes in the same file.
Primarily I would like this will doing R&D on a project idea prior to fully
understanding what the object hierarchy needs to be. That, of course, would
conflict with the non-pre-compiled code by its very nature.
-Mike
