On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, John Tobey wrote:

> I'm thinking of a rewrite in the sense that (by my impression) BSD was
> a rewrite of Unix.  Refactoring, shifting stuff around until it's easy
> to get a handle on things, and replace it all a little at a time.  So,
> yes, these problems can be solved IMHO, after "enough" of Perl 5 has
> been rewritten.

Is that Perl 6 you're talking about or Perl 5.8?  I mean that.  Perl 5
will continue its development while we're doing the rewrite. Incremental
changes would be best done in the 5.7 series, no?

-sam



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