* Jonathan Rockway <[email protected]> [2009-02-20 21:15]: > "A great bonus"? Easy things should be easy.
Typing out a fully qualified package name is difficult? Huh. > You shouldn't need "syntactic salt" to prevent yourself from > writing bad code. You should avoid writing bad code because > it's bad. Have you heard a talk by this guy, Larry Wall? He often talks about linguistic principles in language design. You should listen to him, he has interesting things to say. > I could go on and on about why inside out objects are > worthless, but it's not worth the effort. Anyone that cares > already knows :) Gee. Well I never thought of it like that… you have totally convinced me! Nitpicking aside, I note that you have not lost a single word about the central argument of my mail that Perl does not make it easy enough to stay off everyone else’s toes when you aren’t explicitly looking to mess with their privates. Let me guess – it’s not worth the effort, right? If I cared, I would already know… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
