Re: RFC 54 (v1) Operators: Polymorphic comparisons

[John Porter]

Damian Conway wrote:
>    > > This RFC proposes that numeric comparison operators default to stringwise
>    > > comparison when both arguments are non-numeric strings.
>    > > 
>    > The problem with this, is that we're removing orthogonality from the
>    > language.
> 
> ROTFL.

But it's true. 
The semantics of == vs eq is currently very well defined and distinct. 
The proposal muddies the distinctions. 

The thing that allows you to LOL is precisely the thing which should
motivate us to not reduce Perl's already low orthogonality quotient
without very compelling reasons.

-- 
John Porter