Re: SvPV*

2000-11-24 Thread Roland Giersig
David Mitchell wrote: > > Roland Giersig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe: > > > > "Perl6 should excell at manipulating *formatted* text." > > Quite possibly, although as a previous poster has pointed out, > formatted text != XML. Yes, but both share a common underlying structure: they a

Re: SvPV*

2000-11-24 Thread David Mitchell
Roland Giersig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe: > > "Perl6 should excell at manipulating *formatted* text." Quite possibly, although as a previous poster has pointed out, fotmatted text != XML. ie in the sense that HTML, RTF, TeX etc, have a natural sense of containing a single piece of te

Re: SvPV*

2000-11-24 Thread Roland Giersig
Bart Lateur wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:54:43 +0100, Roland Giersig wrote: > > >Maybe the title should be : > > > >"Perl should use XML as its basic data type instead of linear strings" > > Horrible. > > I kinda liked your original proposal. But you should NOT focus on XML. > That leaves

Re: SvPV*

2000-11-24 Thread Bart Lateur
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:54:43 +0100, Roland Giersig wrote: >Maybe the title should be : > >"Perl should use XML as its basic data type instead of linear strings" Horrible. I kinda liked your original proposal. But you should NOT focus on XML. That leaves out too many other possible data sources: