Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[Tom Christiansen]

>But to apply this metric to every fine-grained aspect of perl5 is silly.
>Perl6 should be a well-designed, consistent, integrated opus. 
>If it goes against the grain of perl6's design to have system-specific
>system calls built in, then they shouldn't be built in, regardless of
>how it was in perl5.

That's silly.  *ALL* syscalls are system specific.  This is starting
to sound like Java, which has its own brand of revisionism.

You'll take my fork when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

--tom