> Of all the items up for change in Perl6, these two bother me the most.
> Format less so than localtime, but I still worry about breakage.
>
> The original format stuff HAS to be kept. Don't document it so as not to
> encourage its use. Play up Text::Autoformat::form if you wish, but there
> will be way too much breakage/too little updateage if hundreds of old
> web log scripts have to be ripped out upon installation of Perl6.
Only if you simultaneously remove Perl 5!
My (limited) understanding of the aims of Perl 6 were to start again with a
clean slate and fix the things that are broken, or that could be designed
better with hindsight. Backwards compatibily was to be fed to the lions.
If that isn't the case, I'll be unsubscribing immediately -- if Perl 6
is to be a mere exercise in featuritis, I'm not interested.
Damian
