At 02:47 AM 2/17/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >Yes, but like it or not, they have over 10 years of precedent behind
> > >them. We're used to this situation, the screaming has already been
> > >done, the scabs are healed over. Let's not pick at them.
> >
> > I've always picked at 'em... in any case, the mandate for Perl 6 design
> was
> > to consider everything fair game, within user-defined reason.
>
>Yes, but its questionable which one is "better". Given a fresh start
>writing a new language, I'd definately say warnings by default. I'd
>also say arrays should start at one, not zero. But we've got a large
>and diverse community to deal with.
>
>This is very much a 6.0 of one, 12.0/2.0 of another type of situation.
Okay, I think we should agree to disagree at this point and back away from
the keyboards... I've made my best arguments and I hate reruns. By now
everyone knows what we both think and they're probably sick of it to boot.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
