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=head1 TITLE
Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch
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lvalue subs should receive the rvalue as an argument
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thin a file.
=head2 A new object module declaration method
Allow function arg list but continue to use @_;
The following would be equivalent forms in Perl5 and Perl6, respectively:
Package Pine::Tree::State;
sub genesis
{
my ($pkg, $oak, $maple) = @_;
my $a = {};
bless $a, $pkg;
bolished. We might want
to use all kinds of array objects, why should @x be special? Rather
since there are infinitely many kinds of variable let's take the perl6
opportunity to make things simple and just use C<$x> for everything.
A RFC by Andy Wardley proposes `Highlander Variable Types&
hen declared:
sub *IMPORT { ... }
sub *UNIMPORT { ... }
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Perl 5.6.0 documentation
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=head1 TITLE
Lazily evaluated list generation functions
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C
and any of the above prefixed with C.
Perl6 will use these types as well as the familiar perl types, which will
all appear in packable defined types as a memory address pointer.
The equivalent of C's C keyword will be our qs{} structure quoting operator,
which can take the same argum
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Builtin: lazy
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=head1 ABSTRACT
C is suggested as a keyword to m
d which
replace keys, values, and each functions on sorted arrays
Since the proposed syntax is currently an error, little modification to
the parser will be required: Fatal syntax errors may be filtered for
this instance.
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Ensuring Perl's object-oriented future
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=head1 ABS
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Higher order functions
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=head
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Apply operators component-wise in a list context
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voting for option #3 a consensus).
However, I propose that option #3 be adopted since it seems the most
Perlian to me.
Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned that the behavior of code
such as this:
foo(pop @a, "bar");
would be changed by this proposal and that the perl5 to p
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=head1 TITLE
Better constants and constant folding
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Make constants look like variables
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Transaction-enabled variables for Perl6
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Alternate Syntax for variable names
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=head1 ABSTRACT
Many new
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Alternative array and hash slicing
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=head1 ABSTRACT
This RFC a
rting perl5 programs to perl6, put the C in.
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Case ignoring eq and cmp operators
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=head1 ABSTRACT
Perl curre
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Split Scalars and Objects/References into Two Types
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Sta
uiring that all matches
require an explicit C.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
Remove the bare C and C from the grammar :-) When
converting perl5 programs to perl6, put the C in.
=head1 REFERENCES
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C<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by Damian Conway
from the grammar.
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perl6-language message
C<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by Damian Conway
RFC 135: Require explicit m on matches, even with ?? and // as delimiters.
and C commands are legacy commands which have been
deprecated for at least 5 years. They should be removed from the language.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Perl6 is a chance to finally remove all the deprecated syntax and start
fresh with only allowing the syntax we want. The C and C
commands are depr
this proposal).
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The 'strict' pragma (or whatever form it takes in perl6) should
include in its 'default set of strictness' a new subpragma, 'system'.
This subpragma has the following semantics:
=over 4
=item *
For many system calls it is possib
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=head1 TITLE
Allow Calling Any Function With A Syntax Like s///
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=head1 ABSTR
e perl version numbers will converge on 2 * PI
=head1 DESCRIPTION
By the end of this committee meeting, we will have a language
that is arbitrarily extensible in accordance with decades of
computer programming practice.
Perl6 is NOT a quick hack done to save implementor time. It is a
carefully c
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Enhanced Pack/Unpack
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Pack and Unpack a
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=head1 TITLE
OO Integration/Migration Path
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=head1 ABSTRACT
Allow Perl 6 to
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Allow Perl 6 to
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=head1 TITLE
Merge C<$!>, C<$^E>, and C<$@>
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=head1 ABSTRACT
Th
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Split Scalars and Objects/References into Two Types
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=head1 TITLE
Here Docs Terminators (Was Whitespace and Here Docs)
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Filtering Here Docs
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=head1 A
quot;CORE::shift") ==> undef
This must be fixed. One might even call this a bug, although the
current prototype mechanism is not powerful enough to cope with all
built-ins.
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 26: Named operators versus functions
Tom Christiansen in <12231.967154045@chthon> (perl6-internals, Aug 24, 2000).
on the programmer who does
not want types. Also note that the linear, 1-pass process above is a
dramatic oversimplification of a realistic type inference algorithm.
=head1 MIGRATION
None required. The output of p52p6 may be run through the inferencer,
but not even native Perl6 code will be required to make it t
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C<||> and C<&&> should propagate result context to both sides
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Brave New World the distinction between C<$x>, C<@x>
and C<%x> are no longer useful and should be abolished. We might want
to use all kinds of array objects, why should @x be special? Rather
since there are infinitely many kinds of variable let's take the perl6
opportunity
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Alternate Syntax for variable names
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Ensuring Perl's object-oriented future
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=head1 TITLE
Request For New Pragma: Shell
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Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
Perl5 does not have an interactive mode. The debugger is fine for
testing a single line, but it is inadequate for running a set of
commands interactively. The Perl6 parser (and possibly the language)
should contain hooks to allow full interactive environments to be
w
r: 179
=head1 ABSTRACT
When programming in perl we need really often to calculate
union, intersection, difference between arrays. It will be
cool if such functions could be part of the perl6 language.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Functions from Set theory are often needed when manipulating arrays,
I'd like
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=head1 TITLE
Proposal to utilize C<*> as the prefix to magic subroutines
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Just change the names!
=head1 MIGRATION
The Perl5 -> Perl6 translator should provide a C alias for the
C routine to ease migration. Likewise for C.
=head1 REFERENCES
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RFC 59: Proposal to utilize C<*> as the prefix to magic subroutines
Email from Nathan Wi
l_chapter/bashref_5.html#SEC61
The mutt man page: http://www.mutt.org/doc/man_page.html
RFC 184: Perl should support an interactive mode:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg02493.html
disagreed. :-)
=head1 MIGRATION
Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned that the behavior of code
such as this:
foo(pop @a, "bar");
would be changed by this proposal and that the perl5 to perl6
converter would need to handle this case. Similar provisions would
need to
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=head1 TITLE
Eliminate bareword filehandles.
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C<||> and C<&&> should propagate result context to both sides
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List context return from filesystem functions
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=head1 TITLE
Deep Copying, aka, cloning around.
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Versio
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=head1 TITLE
Eliminate the optional C for C etc block declarations
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Status: Frozen
=head1 ABSTRACT
Perl distinguishes named operators and functions. For Perl6, this
disctinction can be dropped.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Named operators, like C, can be called like functions in which
case they behave like functions. This has always been so in Perl.
Recent versi
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Request For New Pragma: Implicit
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E::abs") ==> ;$
prototype("CORE::shift") ==> undef
This must be fixed. One might even call this a bug, although the
current prototype mechanism is not powerful enough to cope with all
built-ins.
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 26: Named operators versus functions
Tom Christiansen in <12231.967154045@chthon> (perl6-internals, Aug 24, 2000).
non-overridable
builtins; running my eye down it, it looks like the gross offenders
here are:
glob, print, printf
I don't know whether this is purely an implementation issue (and so
lies solely in the domain of perl6-internals) or whether any
programmer-visible changes may be ne
Number: 173
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
Allow for a list of loop variables in for(each) statements, i.e. & e.g.,
foreach my ($x, $y, $z) (@list) { ... }
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This has been raised by several people in the past, most recently on the
perl6-* lists by Graham
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Add C keyword to force list context (like C)
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=head1 TITLE
subroutine / generic entity documentation
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(aka Multidimensional Arrays/Hashes)
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A Natural Syntax Extension For Chained References
(aka Multidimensional Arrays/Hashes)
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAI
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Simplify C Syntax
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Builtin: lazy
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List context return from filesystem functions
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Here Docs Terminators (Was Whitespace and Here Docs)
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=head1 TITLE
Undef values ne value
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Number: 192
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=head1 ABSTRACT
ion: 2
Number: 184
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
Perl5 does not have an interactive mode. The debugger is fine for
testing a single line, but it is inadequate for running a set of
commands interactively. The Perl6 parser (and possibly the language)
should contain hooks to allow full inter
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Lazily evaluated list generation functions
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Date: 10 August 2000
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Number:
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Short-circuiting C and C with C
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=head1 A
calls "perl",
"doc", and "data" streams, as distinct from POD processor types.
Version 1 proposed a simple implementation which could theoretically work
with the perl5 front end. Later versions presume that the perl6 front end
is game for any implementation details necessa
(or "Allowing built-in functions to use loop blocks")
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Short-circuiting C, C, and C with C
(or "Allowing built-in functions to use loop blocks")
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Garr
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Standardise Function Pre- and Post-Handling
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=head1 ABSTR
tly on the
perl6-* lists by Graham Barr, who does not have time to RFC it
currently. The semantics are (hopefully) obvious: where
foreach $var (@list)
iterates through C<@list>, assigning C<$var> to each element in turn,
foreach ($var_1, ... $var_n) (@list)
iterates throu
any converted program that uses chop().
Implementation in perl6 is very straightforward: don't implement
chop().
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 58: C changes.
perlfunc manpage for discussion of chomp() and chop()
= $x(0:$n-1,4); # or, depending on the choice of separator
$y = $x(0:$n-1;4); # see also RFC 169
Note that we need to keep l-value subs in perl6 to avoid related
types of syntactical clumsiness if C<$x()> can invoke a subroutine
(see below).
$x(0:$n-1:4) *= 2;
should be allowed, as well as t
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Rename @ARGV to @ARGS
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S
is RFC does NOT propose any other keywords
because they are unnecessary. All data types in Perl are built on lists
and scalars.
=head1 NOTES ON RETRACTION
On the surface makes sense. But in reality...Bad Idea.
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg03404.html
http://ww
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crypt() default salt
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=head1 ABSTRACT
A
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Fuller integer support in Perl.
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=head1 ABS
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rindex and index should return undef on failure
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More defaulting to C<$_>.
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POD should tolerate white space.
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POD needs comment command. POD needs a reorder command.
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=head1 TITLE
crypt() default salt
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Mark Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Sep 2000
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2000
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Number: 208
Version: 2
Status: Dev
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More defaulting to $_
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Kenneth C. Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Sep 2000
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2000
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Number: 215
Version:
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POD needs a reorder command.
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Maintainer: Kenneth C. Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Sep 2000
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Number: 217
Version: 2
Status:
tforward. The perl526 translator simply wraps the perl6 wait()
and waitpid():
do { my $r = waitpid(...); return -1 if !defined $r;
return 0 if !$r; $r }
=head1 REFERENCES
the perlfunc manpage for information on waitpid() and wait()
t; as you can with so many other Perl
functions.
I propose changing it so that system() returns false on failure and
true on success.
It would no longer return the exit status of the program, which would
need to be collected through C<$?> or its perl6 replacement.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
Simpl
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=head1 TITLE
Objects: C pragma
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 September 2000
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Number: 223
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
the sequence
">#" within the same line can be diagnosed with a warning or error
identifying exactly the line involved.
=head2 Discussion in perl6-language and perl6-language-mlc
There was some discussion of in-line comments in the perl6-language and
perl6-language-mlc lists.
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Variable interpolation on demand.
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Maintainer: Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Sep 2000
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Number: 229
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=hea
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=head1 TITLE
Legacy Perl $pkg'var should die
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Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
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Number: 71
Version:
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Control flow: Builtin switch statement
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Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2000
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Number: 22
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=head1 TITLE
Data types: Semi-finite (lazy) lists
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Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Aug 2000
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Number: 24
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Operators: Multiway comparisons
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Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2000
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Number: 25
Version: 2
S
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=head1 TITLE
Request For New Pragma: Shell
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Bryan C. Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 5 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2000
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Number: 42
Version: 3
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Operators: Polymorphic comparisons
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Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7 Aug 2000
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Number: 54
Version: 2
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=head1 TITLE
Compilation: Remove requirement for final true value in require-d and do-ed files
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2000
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on issue (and so
lies solely in the domain of perl6-internals) or whether any
programmer-visible changes may be necessary to allow this
(justifying posting to perl6-language).
=head1 NOTES ON FREEZE
This RFC drew very little discussion. It simply proposes a fix to
the core, allowing a couple of ex
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=head1 TITLE
Replace => (stringifying comma) with => (pair constructor)
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2000
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