> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:49:25 -0500 > From: "Joseph F. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think "easy enough with a grammar munge" gets tossed around way too > often; don't forget, in addition to having to know how to hack the core > grammer (which I assume won't be for the novice;
It's not for the novice. But that's why there's modules. > how often does it happen in perl5?), Never. Because you can't. Perl 6 has the advantage that it's possible. > you'll have to write the code so that compiler knows how to handle > it. While not overly hard, I think its a little much for something > that should be provided in the core. I think the design team should > at least account for the fact that someone will want to do this, > even if it is uncommon. If floating point radii doesn't make its > way in the core language, I think it should at least be possible > through a pragma. Once again, or a module. We don't want the Perl 6 core to be minimal. We don't want it to be maximal either; that's CPAN's job. It seems to me (as Simon has pointed out many a-time) that too much is going into the core. I guess a lot of this stuff that's being talked about is going to be in modules anyway... so I'm less worried than when I started writing this paragraph :). Luke
