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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
July 25, 2000 10:17
Subject:
Re: Working groups: "Bugs" and "Lib" (was Re: p5p)
Message ID:
20000725123308.J773@pobox.com
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:33:37PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> Nat, I suggest that we will need a "Lib" working group, handling the
> creation and management of the standard library.  IMO, it should be
> formed as soon as the language definition is slushy (not entirely
> frozen).  The language will largely define the library by omission.

I think this is a good point. The issue I have with the current
library is that there is no consistency across the modules in terms
of API, name conventions etc. IMO this is part of perls "image" problem
and we should attemt to fix it if we can.

Graham.

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