On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 at 14:50 -0800, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Angel Faus wrote: > : Could we please, please, please have bitwise operators be out of the > : core. We expect that they are not going to be used by the average > : user, so it looks fair to apply the ultimate negative huffman > : enconding: they need to be specially required. > : > : A simple "use bitwise" would be ok. That would provide a proper > : manpage to explain the meta-operators thing, and would shorten the > : main list, which is something that we desperatelly need. > > Fine by me. Could force people to declare hyper and super, for all that... I admit that I use pack, bitwise operators, as well as 0x constants in many of my scripts. I'm not sure what Angel means by taking some of these things out of the core, but if my short perl5 scripts start to grow to python length I'll have less incentive to move in the perl6 direction. For now I'll just hope that most of the people driving perl6 know what the average users are going to do with perl6. Isn't the average perl user using perl5 now? David
