OK, I'm now up to date on perl6-language.  Ugh.

Here's the RFC list as it currently stands.  I'll keep reposting this
every few days as it changes.  I'll also put it up at:

http://infotrope.net/opensource/software/perl6/

K.



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The Perl 6 Language RFC summary:

Up for grabs:
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Formats out of core
Renaming linenoise perlvars (into a package?)
unlink() renamed

Requested/promised:
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an option for strong typing
        Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Programer Modifiable Warnings and Error Messages        
        Brust, Corwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List operations eg interleaving
        Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That Perl should stay Perl
        Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Switch statement
        Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Deprecate localtime() and replace with ????
        Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

In existence:
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Multiline comments
        Michael J. Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lexical scoping by default
         J. David Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Higher resolution time valuse
        Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AUTOLOAD declining
        Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Highlander variables
        Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Variable usage warnings
        Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for now
loop control and do
        Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enhanced pack/unpack
        Edwin Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Type inference
        Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables
        Corwin Brust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC for recursive regexps
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Greene)
Filehandles should use C<*> as a type prefix if typeglobs are eliminated.
        Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
                
        
                

                                        

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