On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: : I noticed the Pugs folks have started porting File::Spec and : other modules to Pugs, which leads me to ask this question. : I've also taken a look at Rod Adams S29. : : There a quite a few p5 standard libraries with crusty old user : interfaces that many folks dislike. Two that people often seem : to complain about are File::Find and File::Spec. : : Ken Williams has proposed a cleaner alternative interface than : File::Spec, namely: : : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Path-Class/ : : Two wrappers for File::Find I am aware of are: : : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Find-Rule/ : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Finder/ : : Please note that I am not an expert on any of this, I was just : wondering whether we are going to clean up the old p5 library : interfaces as part of the move to p6. Or must we support the : old p5 library interfaces for backwards compatibility?
I'd say we can jettison any old interface that the p5-to-p6 translator is able to refactor to the new interface. Otherwise we need to keep at least an emulation, though as I've mentioned elsewhere, such emulations don't need to have huffmanly short names. Renaming things is fairly trivial compared to refactoring, at least when you're renaming things in a way that is unlikely to cause name collisons. Maybe we should just say that any Perl 5 module that comes across automatically gets a default name like Perl5ish::Whatever until we decide it's canonical Perl 6, or we decide to demote it to Perl5ishButPleaseNeverEverUseForNewStuff::Whatever or some such. Larry
