On Tuesday 29 August 2006 19:51, Matt Diephouse wrote: > It's been said that writing PMCs sucks. This is your chance to tell > the world why. Because for things to get better, we have to know what > sucks. > > I'll get things started: > > 1) pmc2c.pl is very fragile - when it gets input it doesn't like, it > just ignores it (see RT#39313) > 2) You can't use :slurpy, :optional, or :named arguments. Even if > there's support under the hood, there's no way to write a PMC with > these arguments.
3) The documentation is poor. There's a lot of copy and paste coding occurring, and that leads to duplication. 4) There's a lot of required duplication. 5) The only code re-use mechanism is inheritance. Roles would be nice. -- c
