On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:30:03PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > Or we go the other way and, in a binge of orthogonality, rationalize > all the "on write" traits: > > Current Conjectural > ======= =========== > is constant is dow "die on write" > is copy is cow "copy on write" > is rw is mow "mutate on write" > > But thankfully Perl 6 is not intended to be a "perfect language".
That conjecture reminded me of Allison's "togs" and "dogs". I think I like the verbose version we're going to keep, even though you are suggesting it is *im*perfect. :-) Nicholas Clark
