OK, I'm now up to date on perl6-language. Ugh.
Here's the RFC list as it currently stands. I'll keep reposting this
every few days as it changes. I'll also put it up at:
http://infotrope.net/opensource/software/perl6/
K.
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The Perl 6 Language RFC summary:
Up for grabs:
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Formats out of core
Renaming linenoise perlvars (into a package?)
unlink() renamed
Requested/promised:
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an option for strong typing
Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Programer Modifiable Warnings and Error Messages
Brust, Corwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List operations eg interleaving
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That Perl should stay Perl
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Switch statement
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Deprecate localtime() and replace with ????
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In existence:
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Multiline comments
Michael J. Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lexical scoping by default
J. David Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Higher resolution time valuse
Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AUTOLOAD declining
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Highlander variables
Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Variable usage warnings
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for now
loop control and do
Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enhanced pack/unpack
Edwin Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Type inference
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables
Corwin Brust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RFC for recursive regexps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Greene)
Filehandles should use C<*> as a type prefix if typeglobs are eliminated.
Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
