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Kurt D. Starsinic (lists.bootstrap): > It seems sane to me to avoid _one_ well-implemented library based >on policy. OK, I note your stress on the word "one". So we'll make a policy of avoiding glib, even though it gives us many of the things we want to implement. What about libunicode? Should the people in Perl 6's unicode team have to duplicate the effort there? Or iconv? I don't know. Maybe I'm biased. I tried to implement a character set conversion library, and then I looked around and saw that it all the work I had to sit down and do had already been done. And I couldn't use it, because we had a policy. Are we here for policy, or practicality? -- <ua> The dumb joke of the day is: "Call Microsoft. When the operator answers, "Microsoft, may I help you?" respond: "I can't understand you. You're breaking up."