Re: Expanding the language primitives (was: Re: Reduce [was: Re: Random items (old p5p issues)])

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:03 PM 8/3/00 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > More importantly, the more primitives that perl provides, the wilder
> > and more useful things people will be able to do.
>
>Not quite. Its the functions that are provided that matter, not
>whether they are primitives or not[1].

Ah, I was using primitive in the "it's a conceptual black box that Does 
Something". In the same way that, say, LWP::Simple::get is a primitive. 
Sloppy terminology, I know.


                                        Dan

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