On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:04:27PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Piers Cawley writes:
> > > Iterators
> > Doable in perl5 already.
> > > Reduce (e.g. $x = reduce { sum } @list;
> > Doable in perl5
> > > Case/Switch
> > Why? And Damian's already proved it can be done.
>
> Perl's goal is to make easy things easy. I think case/switch is
> something that belongs in the core, not in a module. Just because
> something can be done now doesn't mean it doesn't deserve tighter
> integration in the next version of Perl, or that it can't be done
> better.
To extend that idea just a bit, it's been shown that you can write
object oriented systems in pure C, but you wouldn't want to do it!
Thus we have OO languages with innate OO-ness.
-Scott
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