Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| >Personally, I would say that q/.../ and friends were a bad idea.
|
| That's one opinion. As Piers points out, it's hardly universal.
| Go read what I just wrote Uri.
"Personally" generally denotes opinion. I simply try to provide a
different perspective.
|
| >A lot of
| >non-gurus
|
| So what?
There are far more non-gurus using perl than there are gurus. If all we
cared about was the gurus, we wouldn't need Perl.
| Pick your own quotes is a perl thing. Let them learn this concept.
| If they can't, you made a bad hiring choice.
It may be a perl thing, but it isn't a Perl thing, at least not until
"recently". I'm not saying people can't learn the concept, I'm saying why
make it difficult on them in the first place? Remember the easy things
easy, etc.
| Transforming everything that's syntactically distinctive in Perl a
| simple C-looking function will homogenize it into the same boring
| sameness (and thence to illegibility) as the proverbial fingernail
| clippings stranded in a bowl of oatmeal.
This is also an opinion. Homogeneity isn't necessarily boring. In fact,
it can often be quite liberating and allow one far more flexibility and
creativity than previously.
| Don't even dream of it. This is part of what makes Perl, Perl, you know.
| Not everything looks like an import from libc. And shoudn't.
You're breaking the rules Tom. We're supposed to dream here. That's why
we started the RFC process. We're all quite capable of changing our minds
and saying "Ok, that was a dumb idea I had. I retract it."
-spp
