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Postings from February 2001
At 02:47 AM 2/17/01 -0500, schwern@pobox.com wrote: > > >Yes, but like it or not, they have over 10 years of precedent behind > > >them. We're used to this situation, the screaming has already been > > >done, the scabs are healed over. Let's not pick at them. > > > > I've always picked at 'em... in any case, the mandate for Perl 6 design > was > > to consider everything fair game, within user-defined reason. > >Yes, but its questionable which one is "better". Given a fresh start >writing a new language, I'd definately say warnings by default. I'd >also say arrays should start at one, not zero. But we've got a large >and diverse community to deal with. > >This is very much a 6.0 of one, 12.0/2.0 of another type of situation. Okay, I think we should agree to disagree at this point and back away from the keyboards... I've made my best arguments and I hate reruns. By now everyone knows what we both think and they're probably sick of it to boot. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies