Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[John Porter]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >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.
> 
> That's silly.  *ALL* syscalls are system specific.  

Well, duh.  So what?  Did you really miss my point by so many furlongs?


> You'll take my fork when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

Perl will ship with fork.  But maybe in a loadable library, eh?

-- 
John Porter

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