Re: Recording what we decided *not* to do, and why

[Peter Scott]

At 12:08 PM 8/3/00 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>As long as everyone realizes that I might reject a good many "Good"
>things merely because if I accepted them all, Perl would become twice
>as complicated as it is.

Good.

>As I see it, given the proclivities of design-by-committee, my main job
>at this point is to prevent feature bloat.  There are various prongs to
>this strategy.  The obvious ones include culling "bad" features from
>Perl 5, and limiting the introduction of marginal features into Perl 6.

Should we have a list for features of Perl 5 we *don't* want to 
perpetuate?  Is it worth separating into a mailing list, a thread on this 
list, an RFC, none of the above?

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies