Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead ofPOD

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Williams
less than HTML are they meant to be read by humans. They are text files, because that allows experts (such as programmers) to more easily debug applications, and in emergencies, they can use a simple text editor to fix a broken XML file. .greg -- Greg Williams| If you wish to live a life

Re: RFC 339 (v1) caller-eval BLOCK

2000-09-30 Thread Greg Williams
On Sep 30 2000 22:38:58, Perl6 RFC Librarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =head1 ABSTRACT Ccaller is extended to allow complete access to the "call frame" of the current subroutine call. would this be better suited by the previously proposed (i'm not sure for perl6 though) Cno scope;

Re: RFC 254 (v1) Class Collections: Provide the ability tooverload classes

2000-09-20 Thread Greg Williams
, I take it that there are no strong objections to the proposal. Likewise, there hasn't been much talk in support of it. I take it from the silence of the list that there is indeed a problem that this RFC addresses, but is only sufficient to fix the problem, and not necessary. .greg -- Greg