Re: (Ovid - merlyn should get credit, too) Re: Damian Conway Talk from July 31, 2001

Ack! I went by my notes late at night and forgot to credit merlyn! Shame on me. If it wasn't for merlyn, Damian would probably not of been speaking last night at OGI where merlyn teaches courses. Damian is having a couple days of courses there and if I had the cash, I would be in class right now. My plan of getting someone to hire me for the rest of the week and pay for training just didn't work.

use modules not on our system.

We might have a feature that will allow one to use a module that's not installed and have it downloaded from the CPAN, unpacked, compiled (if necessary) and installed when needed.

I'd like the option of having that functionality, but I would hate for it to be default behaviour. It's like having CPAN automatically upgrade your Perl.

Though that reminds me that Perl6 will have the ability to have different versions of the same module on your system. Which would make upgrading nervousness not quite so scary. Though, it also sounded like Perl6 will be better at DWIM than before as well. Such lines as <code> system("ls") || die "It didn't work\n";<code> will actually work as "expected".

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