On Dec 6, 2007 7:22 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # from Bill Ward > # on Thursday 06 December 2007 16:23: > > >Cute experiment, but I REALLY hope nobody tries releasing useful > >modules to CPAN that depend on this... > > Cute comment, but I really hope nobody puts any stock in it. What skin > is it off of your nose if a useful module uses something you're afraid > of?
Sorry to be snarky. What I was getting at was that I need to support Perl modules in a production environment, and experiments like this may be academically interesting but introduce levels of instability and inefficiency that are not consistent with that environment. If modules that we need to use are based on it, then I have a difficult decision as to whether the module is wotrh that risk just so Perl can be written in a more Lisp-like manner. Experimenting with the language itself should be reserved for new development such as Perl 6, not for trying to add yet more layers on top of Perl 5. And from a Perl advocacy perspective, instead of making Perl more attractive to the hordes of Lisp programmers out there, I think we should be more interested in making Perl 5 attractive for real world uses.
