Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:51:27PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> > you *don't* need to remember
> > you are programming in perl5 or perl6, and get the same functionality.
> 
> But you need to remember it anyway, so remembering it for time() is
> no added burden.

Uhm. NO! Remembering that $x+1 things have changed is an "added burden"
over remembering that $x things have changed.

> "Perl should remain Perl" (once known as RFC 0) is bogus

If you want things that *aren't* Perl, you know exactly where to find them.

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