> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Deibler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: Re: target as a property
>
> Can we quantify the number of people who really want these features?
We'll never get this resolved this way. This is basically the old cathedral .vs. bazaar debate : http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/.
Quoth Peter: "The path to perl is paved with good intentions". Hey, Perl *does* have millions of users, and the number grows every day, so they must be doing something right in the middle of all those screwups :-) (given all the choices these days - Python, etc.)
On the other hand, the Perl 6 feature list proposals contains a number of "anti-features" - experiments in Perl 5 that the maintainers have come to recognize as mistakes, and are trying to figure out how to deprecate..
Tough choice. As Peter says: the best thing may be to fork the codebase (after 1.4 spins off), and have a group of volunteers evolve ant with more scripting features, and see if it's a mistake or not.
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Shankar.
