Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:52 AM 8/25/00 -0600, 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.  This is starting
>to sound like Java, which has its own brand of revisionism.

If the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are invisible and performance is at 
worst acceptable, does it really matter how things are implemented?

                                        Dan

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