>Here in my pre-caffiene morning trance it occurs to me that a few of
>the "fringe" features of perl should be removed from the langauge.
>Here's a few things that I would venture to say that none of the
>"perl5 is my first perl" people have probably ever actually used.
> reset # How often do you clear variables wholesale?
> dump
> study # never been a win for me.
> ?pattern? # one-time match
> split ?pat? # implicit split to @_
>What's everyone's feeling on removing these from perl6? How often are
>they used?
One could make dump "work" by having it dump out not a core or
a.out, but rather the byte codes representing the current state of
the perl machine. This seems anywhere from somewhat to seriously
useful, and follows in the spirit of what dump was always meant to do.
--tom
