On Nov 28, 2007 8:46 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 10:59:30 James Fuller wrote: > > > I do not nec. agree with 'a particular grammer is not' part of the > > core ... if that grammar is so common to every problem (like regex is) > > then why not include it? > > Because it's not necessary for getting and installing other extension modules. > > The criterion for including a module in the core is "Is this necessary to get > and install other modules?" not "Why not include this module?"
I read this statement as saying that perl's core main purpose is to enable extension versus be a useful programing language ? feels like we are externalizing what I would call build artifacts of a language .... e.g. a distro of Perl 6 should be easy to adopt and easy to use immediately ..... I would like to see some basic level of XML support in this distro. I understand that there can be different distros customized to certain problem domains, but as explained I see XML as common to all those problem domains. I like the approach from a 'build language' point of view, but I am wondering what sort of dependency management one must get involved with if using distro X versus distro Y. cheers, Jim Fuller
