On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:27, Scott Walters wrote: Without commenting on the rest of the proposal, please allow me to clear up one point:
> * Rather than eliciting public comment on %hash`foo (and indeed %hash<<foo>>) > the proposal is being rejected out of hand This whole thread *is* public comment. Some people like it, some people don't. Some people think it's useful. Some people think it's ugly. Some people think it simplifies things. Some people think it complicates things. Larry hasn't weighed in. Larry might not weigh in. Larry might like it. Larry might not. Larry might think it solves a real problem and come up with a nicer unification that almost everyone can live with. Hey, it's happened plenty of times before. > (incidentally, the mantra of the Java community Process Now that's just rude. You are welcome to think that a certain proposal you like is the best thing ever and should certainly go in Perl 6 for whatever reason -- but claiming that the proposal has been "rejected out of hand" on a public mailing list where people are discussing the proposal and some people like it and some people don't is rather silly. -- c
