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Postings from December 2000
>We may have to "agree to disagree". I shan't be doing that. >I'm understand why people believe in >the current semantics, but I've seen no indication that anyone else >understands why I believe in these alternative semantics, or has tried. >(Disagreeing with my conclusion doesn't preclude understanding where I'm >coming from, but nobody seems to.) You have not addressed the heat death of the universe as I and others have illustrated. Finding all possible matches is very often completely infeasible. Please solve the electron decay problem before continuing. >Well, obviously we could. Maybe we shouldn't, but we could do it. Many, >many existing programs depended on Perl 4's magic behavior with @'s in >double-quoted strings, yet Perl 5 broke them all with a fatal error during >the compile phase. People survived. They adapted and moved on. Red herring. >Unlike >that incompatibility, this one would probably affect few programs. You're wrong. Incredibly wrong. --tom