Re: [Fwd: Re: Moving the p5 standard library to p6]

2005-03-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:31:07AM +0100, Juerd wrote: : Perhaps good administration would be to introduce a generic Deprecated:: : namespace. Module authors can move their own old modules there if they : want, and there can be Deprecated::P5 for stuff like dbmopen, : Deprecated::Perl5::File::Find.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Moving the p5 standard library to p6]

2005-03-26 Thread Juerd
chromatic skribis 2005-03-26 2:13 (-0800): > No. Please, no. :) > As I see it, Perl 6 has a chance to start over with a very small set of > core libraries -- perhaps embarrassingly small -- so as not to entomb > our current, potentially-blepharitic guesses at good Perl 6 design > principles for

[Fwd: Re: Moving the p5 standard library to p6]

2005-03-26 Thread chromatic
Forwarded... On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:05 +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: > Please note that I am not an expert on any of this, I was just > wondering whether we are going to clean up the old p5 library > interfaces as part of the move to p6. Or must we support the > old p5 library interfaces for back