At 05:21 PM 4/9/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:48:43AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > > Yes, we could throw damned well everything into
> > > Perl, and you might want to consider that "equally valid".
> >
> > I might, but I wouldn't. That's precisely why I'm arguing
> > against adding URLs as an intrinsic type!
>
>Then you are indeed agreeing with Greg, whose statement that sometimes
>minimalism is the right way to go you dismissed as being completely
>contrary to Perl philosophy. Can you see why this is confusing?
I think you might be getting a bit too black'n'white here. Arguing against
one particular proposal doesn't make one minimalist, any more than arguing
for a proposal makes one a maximalist. There's plenty of space in the middle.
Dan
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