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On Oct 28, 2012 9:15 AM, "Kent Fredric" <kentfredric@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 29 October 2012 02:06, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > > > When _ONE_ standard set of semantics makes its way out among all the > > others, as being the one the _community_ wants, that is the time I feel > > would be right for p5p to look into it. > > > > +1 > > Indeed, there a quite a number of modules on CPAN that do something in > this regard, but none are really forthcomming enough to be deemed an > acceptable measure of "standard", and until such a time as an > implementation surfaces that is good enough to gain some amount of > attention , the idea of thrusting it towards end users as a finished > product is just going to result in misery. And how do we determine when one becomes a standard? > > Granted some features may be hard to implement on CPAN side, > particularly the "caller side stricutures" part, but I think we should > be extending core by adding hooks to enable this behaviour, not simply > pushing the behaviour itself wholesale into core. > > Of course, I get the impression this is exactly what p5p are going to > do anyway, Just the lack of an organised "roadmap" sort of muddies how > people perceive the progress of feature development. > > > > -- > Kent > > perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, > 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"Thread Previous | Thread Next