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On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:20:15AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > nice things about PL/SQL), but I would like to note that this statement, > while true, is effectively meaningless. Might as well say the same about > perl 5 because anyone who wanted to could hack toke.c. OK, I'll put it another way: domain-specific syntax modifications are something we want to encourage in all cases, not just in the case of databases. (There's that generalisation thing again.) On the other hand, I don't think it's worth getting bogged down in argument at this stage over how people can apply that concept - specific applications don't necessarily go in core, they're an external thing; (and certainly don't help us get the Perl 6 language itself designed) it's just as useless as discussing not only what modules should be in the Perl 6 equivalent of CPAN but what their interfaces should be. -- "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.Thread Previous | Thread Next