> pseudo-evolve
I wasn't talking about pseudo upgrades.
A built-in Moose like OO system would be nice.
It doesn't need to be fast, just stable.
> How Perl can tame and shape that evolution
Evolution is about try and error and prooving fitness.
We need a better playground for experimenting with new language features.
Syntactic macros come to mind.
We need a better hooking policy:
- on one side P5P can't support all changes to builtin behaviour.
- OTOH is PadWalker still considered an unsupported hack, why?
We need a better language definition:
- more orthogonality (e.g. aliasing, local only for package vars ... why?)
- beginner friendlier docs highlighting the essential features and banning the edge cases to footnotes.
- pragmas helping to enforce mainstream while still allowing backwards compatibility
We need a better narrative what and why Perl does...
(my train is arriving...)
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