i cc'ed to language as this issue spans then as well as internals.
>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> We're fighting multiple definitions of "core" here. Please distinguish
LW> the core of the language from the core of the implementation--they're
LW> two entirely different things. What we're attempting to do here is
LW> make it *not matter* whether something is in the core implementation or
LW> not. This gives us a great deal of freedom in how to implement the
LW> core of the language.
the language vs. implementation core confusion has hit before. could we
come up with better terms which are not so overloaded? i suggest we drop
the use of core altogether for now and pick new terms. here are some ideas:
the Perl language base features
the perl binary/image/executable/main
i would use object but that is WAY too overloaded. i am sure we can pick
a pari of terms which are short and reflect our usage. we have too much
linguistic power on these lists to fight over core vs. core.
LW> This should all be transparent at the language level. Certainly
LW> index() will continue to be supported in the core language. But it
LW> almost certainly belongs outside the core implementation.
i like that. but is that only platform implementation specific? i see a
possibility of requesting (via a pragma) an alternative implementation of
binary (see i used the new term!). something like this:
use library qw(Quantum::sort) ;
which would load the sort implementation with damian's constant time
sort and overload the sort function as well.
my advanced I/O rfc (to be released soon) uses something like that to
appease the language minimalists (sockets out of base language) and the
binary minimalists (sockets loaded as desired).
uri
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