Re: formats and localtime

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

DC> Only if you simultaneously remove Perl 5!

DC> My (limited) understanding of the aims of Perl 6 were to start again with a
DC> clean slate and fix the things that are broken, or that could be designed
DC> better with hindsight.  Backwards compatibily was to be fed to the lions.

DC> If that isn't the case, I'll be unsubscribing immediately -- if Perl 6
DC> is to be a mere exercise in featuritis, I'm not interested.

The problem will be what do you do with all of the old guard? Larry has
a major balancing act to do. Clean up the dirty laundry but still leave
the language for those useful dirty deeds.

<chaim>
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