Re: RFC thoughts and guidelines

2000-08-16 Thread skud
(reply-to set to bootstrap) On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:36:47AM -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote: >On this matter, should something like this be a (meta) RFC? > > Guidelines for Developing Changes for Perl 6 (v0.1). There's nothing to stop you writing an RFC on whatever you like :) However, there's not

Re: RFC thoughts and guidelines

2000-08-16 Thread Tony Olekshy
On this matter, should something like this be a (meta) RFC? =head1 TITLE Guidelines for Developing Changes for Perl 6 (v0.1). =head1 ABSTRACT - If Perl 5 functionality is not broken (at least for some uses), then don't change it unless a critical required core change imples the cha

RFC thoughts and guidelines

2000-08-16 Thread skud
Last night we had a Melbourne.pm dinner and we were, of course, discussing Perl 6 and the language RFCs. Something that became apparent was that the RFCs are a tad confusing, and we came up with some things which we thought might help. Firstly, an RFC should usually only address one point. Some