At 12:26 AM 8/4/00 -0400, Ted Ashton wrote:
>Thus it was written in the epistle of Perl6 RFC Librarian,
> >
> > =head2 Disadvantages
> >
> > Literally none have been broached on the various C<perl6> mailing lists.
>
>Well, I'll take my shot at providing one: An at least %800 increase in the
>characters used to make up these names. For quick hacks, this is a pain and
>from my experience with English.pm, I had to spend just as much time looking
>up which word I have to use as I ever did looking up which punctuation.
The punctuation versions do at least have the merit of i18n :-) I don't
see any "use French" scripts out there yet...
Aside from that, though, there is the virtue of rationalization in the
English proposal... plus never having to worry about this:
http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
:-)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
