Re: New Perl rewrite - embedded Perl

[Tom Christiansen]

>are put in "main" directory.  I woud like Perl6 do the same thing, leave<SNIP>
>etc stuff
>outside of core.

We've been down this route.  It doesn't help the way you think it does.
These are merely wafer-thin wrappers about syscalls.  It's Perl's 
complete infrastructure support system you're seeing, and that you
will not reduce.

--tom