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On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:05 +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
Please note that I am not an expert on any of this, I was just
wondering whether we are going to clean up the old p5 library
interfaces as part of the move to p6. Or must we support the
old p5 library interfaces for
chromatic skribis 2005-03-26 2:13 (-0800):
No. Please, no. :)
As I see it, Perl 6 has a chance to start over with a very small set of
core libraries -- perhaps embarrassingly small -- so as not to entomb
our current, potentially-blepharitic guesses at good Perl 6 design
principles for the
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:31:07AM +0100, Juerd wrote:
: Perhaps good administration would be to introduce a generic Deprecated::
: namespace. Module authors can move their own old modules there if they
: want, and there can be Deprecated::P5 for stuff like dbmopen,
:
I noticed the Pugs folks have started porting File::Spec and
other modules to Pugs, which leads me to ask this question.
I've also taken a look at Rod Adams S29.
There a quite a few p5 standard libraries with crusty old user
interfaces that many folks dislike. Two that people often seem
to
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
: I noticed the Pugs folks have started porting File::Spec and
: other modules to Pugs, which leads me to ask this question.
: I've also taken a look at Rod Adams S29.
:
: There a quite a few p5 standard libraries with crusty old user
