[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Siracusa) writes: > there's an official way, you'll certainly see less wheel reinvention than in > Perl 5. This is a good thing.
That is only true if you accept the fundamentalist principle that one should never reinvent wheels. If that were true, then we wouldn't be working on Perl 6. > The standardized "class", "method", "submethod", and so on in Perl 6 will be > an absolute breath of fresh air. Don't worry; people will soon create their own helper modules anyway. There'll still be More Than One Way To Do It, like it or not. > Furthermore, every "non-core" implementation will necessarily be uglier than > the built-in system. Again, this is dogma. If the core specifies every minute detail of what you can do with the language, it's going to be far uglier than any module or implementation you can come up with. > "Although the Perl motto is There's More Than One Way To Do It, I hesitate > to make 10 ways to do something." The trick is to only make one way to do lots of things. The Perl core should be about facilitating cool stuff, not legislating it. -- Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? Because OCT(31) == DEC(25)
