Ah, summertime (at least here in the northern hemisphere). The language list has slowed down to a trickle, hopefully because everybody is relaxing in a cool place, idly sipping non-alcoholic spritzers next to some special person, reading low-brow literature (or, as in my case, Apoc 6).
This is a good time for a little daydreaming. I know everybody here has at some point thought of some feature in Perl6 "Ooo, I can't wait to use that." It would be interesting to hear your Perl6 daydreams. I'll start the show. - I'm looking forward to more Pure Perl modules. I frankly admit that I don't like coding in C. Every time I download a module that has compiled C code I feel like I'm stuck in some place where I want to play baseball and everybody else wants to play cricket. Maybe C and cricket are "better" by some set of constraints, but they aren't the games I want to play, and I think a lot of other people feel that way too (about Perl, anyway). I predict that with byte-coded Perl as the standard, more modules will be written in Pure Perl. I more than predict it, I intend to help make it happen. One of the projects I would like to initiate in Perl6 would be a Pure Perl graphics class for generating PNG graphics on the fly. - I'm just vain enough to admit that I'm looking forward to pointing out some small feature of Perl6 and saying "See that? That was *my* idea." -Miko Miko O'Sullivan Programmer Analyst Rescue Mission of Roanoke
