Forwarded... On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:05 +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
> Please note that I am not an expert on any of this, I was just > wondering whether we are going to clean up the old p5 library > interfaces as part of the move to p6. Or must we support the > old p5 library interfaces for backwards compatibility? No. Please, no. :) As I see it, Perl 6 has a chance to start over with a very small set of core libraries -- perhaps embarrassingly small -- so as not to entomb our current, potentially-blepharitic guesses at good Perl 6 design principles for the next twenty years or so. If people really want File::Find or MakeMaker interface compatibility in Perl 6, I suggest a new top-level namespace, namely GodHelpYou::File::Find, though P5Compat may be less exciting and more appropriate. -- c
