in reply to Re^4: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018
in thread Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018

I agree it's complicated and respect your wish to not discuss semantics here.

But that's not what I meant with management.

Function signature would have a bigger positiv impact on beginners than our declarations or defined-or // operators (to name some very popular added features not talking about smart match ~~ )

It doesn't seem like P5P (or whoever else has the final word) does strategical planning.

I'm not attacking you or asking you to invest more.

I'm just stating a lack of market thinking.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^6: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Apr 16, 2018 at 10:14 UTC
    It doesn't seem like P5P (or whoever else has the final word) does strategical planning.
    Well it doesn't really, because perl is almost entirely a volunteer effort. The pumping could decree that signatures is our highest priority, but if a volunteer decides that doing signatures is too big and complicated and scary and beyond their ability (and it will be but for a small handful of people) and instead it would be fun to implement defined-or, should the pumpkin fire that volunteer or accept the dor patch into core?

    Anyway we barely have the manpower to just fix existing bugs, without adding shiny new features.

    Dave.

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      Hi Dave,

      Sorry, but calling function signatures a "shiny new feature" in 2018 is a bit weird.

      I think this view proves my point of a missing overall strategy.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        I think this view proves my point of a missing overall strategy.
        But you've completely failed to address where, in my previous post, I pointed out that having a strategy won't help a jot. If you disagree, please clearly explain where my argument falls down.

        Dave.

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