Re: RFC 333 (v1) Add C and C funtions to coredistribution

[Alan Gutierrez]

On 28 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

> =head1 TITLE
> 
> Add C<header> and C<unheader> funtions to core distribution

> =head2 Location
> 
> These are such lightweight functions that their impact on core would be
> negligible. As such, they could potentially be put directly into it,
> since they are just formatting functions compliant with open standards.

They are lightweight functions so is there an enormous benifit to having
them in the core implemented in C?

Indeed they are just formatting functions, not primitives. There may be
many applications for them, but there are many applications for Carp,
Getopts::Long, File::Find, etc. It is an application specific function.
This slope is slippery.

Alan Gutierrez