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Nathan Torkington writes: : Simon Cozens writes: : > The question is, then, how do we sufficiently register apathy? : : As Skud said: it's not really an issue. This is brainstorming. : I'm trusting Larry to do a lot of the triage himself. We could : schedule a vote, but that's a massive pain in the ass to organize : and really brings the committee-lovers out of the woodwork. : : Larry, do you have any opinions on this? Do we need to be telling : you "not many people cared about this"? If so, any ideas on how : to do it? I can get a feeler for that just from monitoring the discussion, or lack thereof. For the first crack at design, I think I should aim to make rational choices rather than "democratic" ones. If I make a choice that there's a groundswell of antipathy towards, then we'll need to take that into account as we revise things. But considering that the whole reason we're having Perl 6 is because I want people to tell me where my blind spots are (or have been), I hope to demonstrate some degree of sensitivity to the needs of others. :-) LarryThread Previous | Thread Next