Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> not because language design is a fun thing to do of an evening.
Huh? You mean I'm supposed to pretend to not enjoy myself? I keep
all my hair shirts at work, thanks.
> If that's the case, nobody wins if we bend the Perl language out of all
> recognition, because it won't be Perl any more. So let's not do this.
Do you use closures? You know, sub { ... }. That's a blow-your-mind-cool
feature and it's the most important part of Perl *for me*. If you don't
use them that's fine by me, that's what Perl's all about. (Closures didn't
actually work right until around 5.004, but IMHO they were worth waiting
for.)
If anybody proposes a feature that destroys the dialect of Perl you
speak, complain loudly. If somebody proposes a feature you don't
understand, please take the time to learn. I don't see how we can
be a community unless we understand each other. I think I understand
that Perl might be a fragile thing and we should be careful when
changing it. However, it might be a fragile thing that dies because
we don't put any new ideas into it. (Very unlikely problem with
Damian around...)
With that said, I could agree with RFC 28 if the insulting and anti-
community rhetoric about computer science and new-ideas-are-bad was
toned down. (Remember Larry's slide with the Perl influences on it?
Linguistics, Art, Common Sense *and* Computer Science.)
- Ken
