> You lost me, I really don't know what your goal is.

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg194641.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/9ohhsp/what_is_perl_good_at/e7uw8zx

Up until 5.24, /usr/bin/perl used to be a platform. I don't have "a goal" because there is no coming back from the damage of the past ~5 years.

I asked for simple words and you gave me links to lengthy discussions?

How dare you ... :´(

So you want to freeze P5's core as it is and delegate all extensions to CPAN?

But don't you think that features like sub signatures with ...

• named arguments,
• default values and
• parameter checking
are long overdue?

And what's "Peter Martin's work" ?

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

°) /me crushing eggs in anger (in-joke ;-)

Named arguments, default values, parameter checking are all syntactic sugar, which sure, is somewhat nice to have, but is no possible way essential. Every time you go "I can do this using this little longer syntax" - you already disqualified it as a "long overdue must have feature".

If anything they are not long overdue: they are too late to the party. Using such snazziness would require me to leave behind 5.8-style perl, at which point I might as well leave perl behind altogether. The more "modern" you get, the geometrically smaller the pool of folks who would benefit from your work.

This is something I had to write 2 months ago. I can not write this in perl, and am not likely to ever be able to. Before you go "but async" - I will point out that in the entirety of my career IO has never been an issue. Given certain level of competence, you almost invariably end up bottlenecked on CPU.

But sure, let's talk about signatures and postfix-deref 🤮