Re: Civility, please. (was Re: L2R/R2L syntax)

2003-01-18 Thread Joseph F. Ryan
Sam Vilain wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:10, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes: I don't think any aspect of this discussion is hinged on people being 'ignorant' of perl5 behaviors, Oh, I do, and you've dismissed that argument out of hand. This isn't name-calling

Re: Civility, please. (was Re: L2R/R2L syntax)

2003-01-18 Thread Sam Vilain
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:10, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes: > > I don't think any aspect > > of this discussion is hinged on people being 'ignorant' of perl5 > > behaviors, > Oh, I do, and you've dismissed that argument out of hand. This isn't > name-calling; this is a plea

Re: Civility, please. (was Re: L2R/R2L syntax)

2003-01-17 Thread Damian Conway
Simon Cozens wrote: This isn't name-calling; this is a plea for Perl 6 not to become a language > designed by a committee of ignorant amateurs. Fortunately there is absolutely no chance of that. Perl 6 is a language being designed by exactly one person. And he's neither ignorant, nor an amateur

Re: Civility, please. (was Re: L2R/R2L syntax)

2003-01-17 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes: > I don't think any aspect > of this discussion is hinged on people being 'ignorant' of perl5 > behaviors, Oh, I do, and you've dismissed that argument out of hand. This isn't name-calling; this is a plea for Perl 6 not to become a language designed by a

Civility, please. (was Re: L2R/R2L syntax)

2003-01-17 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 02:17 PM, Joseph F. Ryan wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: On 2003-01-17 at 19:00:04, Simon Cozens wrote: This is plainly untrue. See the "perlsub" documentation, which talks about "creating your own syntax" with the & prototype. You can do all this in Perl 5, and it