On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 06:03:20PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > : One thing I've already done is make a list of Perl 5 functions I cannot > : address until some future Apocalypse/Synopsis is generated on the topic. > : By far the bulk of this list falls on S16. Partly because IPC is a mess, > : and partly because I lumped all I/O in there. > > At some point we're going to have to make a decision how many of these > automatically show up in ::* and how many have to be imported, and whether > there's some subset of the latter that can be auto-imported on demand, > and whether that's a good idea at all. It feels like a sop, and I'm not > sure how many sops we can afford in Perl 6 before things get soggy.
I ran into this problem while creating a mini-list of S29 functions (which Rod's work supercedes, I suspect, and I'm very glad he's taking this on). What are some guidelines we could use in deciding which functions are automatically in ::* ? Or is this just a case where we need to use past experience and best guesses as our guide? Pm
