Moving the discussion to perl6-language:
Thus it was written in the epistle of Nathan Wiger,
> Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >
> > Language
> > -> Obsolete Features
> > -> 1. Formats are not commonly used ....
> >
> > I'm sorry where did this come from. I use formats regularly and quite
> > usefully.
>
> I agree 100%. If it was possible to agree more than 100% I would.
I'm not sure what more there is to say--formats are very common in my code as
well. They were, after all, a big part of why Perl was created in the first
place and the need has not gone away.
Ted
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