Ted Ashton wrote:
>
> Moving the discussion to perl6-language:
>
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Nathan Wiger,
> > Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > >
> > > Language
> > > -> Obsolete Features
> > > -> 1. Formats are not commonly used ....
> > >
> > > I'm sorry where did this come from. I use formats regularly and quite
> > > usefully.
> >
> > I agree 100%. If it was possible to agree more than 100% I would.
>
> I'm not sure what more there is to say--formats are very common in my code as
> well. They were, after all, a big part of why Perl was created in the first
> place and the need has not gone away.
Maybe we should talk about how to extract the functionality
of formats out of the core into a separate module. That the functionality
that formats provide is needed is out of the question, but
I guess the removal would make the parser more light-weight.
I'm not sure how a format module interface could look like,
but that's what we should put up on our discussion list.
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