On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:50:39PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> Its a higher level construct. Akin to telling your interior decorator
> that you'd like the furniture to match the wallpaper. You've left
> out all the details but the decorator can easily see what you're talking
> about.
>
> So calling, adding a little bit of Prolog, is hard to call anti-perl.
Right. You don't seem to be getting it, so I'm going to have to be harsh here.
You see, there's a way we can canonically verify whether these suggestions
have any merit whatsoever, or whether they should be shot down in flames and
burnt.
Perl, being the practical language that it is, and since we can easily
implement reduce and friends in Perl, we can very easily tell if there's a
real need for these features by looking at whether anyone has attempted to
implement them.
So, if you can point me at a CPAN module that does this, I'll concede that
*one* person actually cares enough about these things to do something about
it.
Of course, one person caring doesn't mean that the need is strong enough for
something to go in Perl. There are all sorts of wacky modules out there, not
all of which should go in core. If you'd suggested adding support for URI
encoding and decoding, I would have laughed a lot less, since that's a feature
that a lot of people need, want and use.
But what is being proposed is completely and utterly unwanted by the vast
majority of Perl users out there. It's pie-in-the-sky ludicrosity from some
ivory tower. It may be your hobby-horse, but there *is* no CPAN module to
attempt to implement these things, there are no users, nobody wants it, nobody
needs it and nobody cares. End of story.
So can we please leave these ridiculous delusions behind and get on with some
real work?
--
"Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
entropy to create bugs instead?"
-- Steve Elias
