Re: Language RFC Summary 4th August 2000

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:41 AM 8/4/00 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > >>>>> "s" == skud  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >   s> Up for grabs:
> >   s> -------------
> >   s> Formats out of core
> >
>
>Somehow, I missed this message.
>
>I don't think that's a language issue.  Whether Perl continues to
>support formats certainly is, but its location within Perl is more of
>an internals thing.

It definitely is, since formats do things that can't be done in modules. If 
they yank formats out (which is just dandy by me) that means that some 
means of providing format's functionality needs has to be designed in.

                                        Dan

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