[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sherman) writes: > > If we have to resort to much magic to get these right, we're pretty much > > doomed from the outset. > > You have that upside-down. Because this is so fundamental, it's worth a > great deal of magic to make it "seem right" in as many contexts as > possible. This is what Perl has always done, no?
Maybe you're right; maybe what I want isn't Perlish, as I've said before. I just worry about having to teach all this. At any rate, I do wish we'd stop kidding ourselves that Perl 6 is at all going to be "cleaned up" or "regular"; I bet it'll end up with more edge cases and special exceptions than Perl 5. -- * Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (obscurity)
