Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[John Porter]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
> Or, more succinctly, we're not going to screw with perl without a *darned* 
> good reason.

Well, in the big picture, we *are* screwing with perl, and we know
that we have darned good reason to.

But to apply this metric to every fine-grained aspect of perl5 is silly.
Perl6 should be a well-designed, consistent, integrated opus. 
If it goes against the grain of perl6's design to have system-specific
system calls built in, then they shouldn't be built in, regardless of
how it was in perl5.

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John Porter

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