Maintainer: Roland Giersig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Oct 2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: perl6-internals ?
Number: ?
=head1 ABSTRACT
Right now, Perl performs its magic only upon linear strings of ASCII
and Unicode text. As Ilya Zakharevich has stated in his recent
interview (http://
es perl6 worthwile. I've attached
the RFC again and would hope to at least get some "Nah..." or "Yeah!"
as feedback.
Cheers!
Roland
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=head1 TITLE
Perl should support non-linear text.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Roland Giersig <[EMAIL PROTECT
Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > I'd offer the possiblity that there are two (or perhaps more)
> > different problems here. One is the current bunch of bytes (string,
> > executable to be twiddled) Another which the attribute on strings
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
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
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I object to targetting GCC specifically for two reasons,
> though, neither of them VMS related:
>
> 1) Targeting a single compiler, no matter whose it is, is a bad idea. We're
> writing in a *language*, not for a compiler. Targeting a specific compiler
> restricts us even m
