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On 14 January 2014 21:12, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote: > "Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> writes: > >> Personally I'd be in favour of prototyping a brand new pack-alike >> thing on CPAN, to fix these and some other issues. > > Personally, I'd like to carry this even a step further. > > The Perl programming language has a couple of features that are > basically programming languages within the programming language. These > features are pattern matching, pack/unpack and formats. While > historically this may have been a good approach, these features have > seen a lot of evolution in the last 25 years and one may wonder whether > keeping them as a language within a language is still a good thing. > > For most common purposes it's okay to have these features as they are > right now, but when it comes to substantial extensions and improvements > it may be worth to consider a new and totally different approach. > > For pack/unpack I'd love to see a CPAN module that uses a well defined, > user friendly and less cryptic method to describe the data packing and > unpacking. > > I know that it is a deadly sin to make a suggestion like this without > offering a completely worked out design -- so be it. Nevertheless I do > hope that it may free some minds from the dead end track of even more > super-cryptic pack/unpack templates. I have no objection to moving pack to CPAN. I think its quite a bit different from moving the regex engine though, I wouldnt want to conflate the two discussions. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next