On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:10:12 +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>> My critique of the Perl 6 RFC process and following discussion is now
>> available at
>> http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/perl6rfc.html
>
>Agree 100% to every point.
Coming from someone whoe probably wrote more RFC's than anyone else (I
count 33), I find that pretty ironic.
But no, I don't think the RFC process is a failure. I sure hope that the
collection of accepted RFC's is the blueprint for Perl6. Because, for
one thing, I really despise the idea of placeholders as a "data type"
(They're not. It's like saying a witch is not a woman. They're just
scalars, but which "enchant" the expression they're in.) Curried
functions have their uses, but not in this syntax. Far too much
ambiguity. I sure hope Larry shoots this idea down.
And there are plenty of other idea's that haven't even been RFC'ed,
mainly because of lack of time. Writing an RFC for a relatively simple
idea took me *hours*. Unofficial discussion is sooo much simpler.
--
Bart.
