Why do you persist in talking for Larry Wall?

I'm going to let japhy speak (or not) for himself here.

I thought the point of a discussion was not to blindly tow the line, but to engage in a dialogue?

This is correct, and known.

Tell me why you would rather use dots fo methods and underscores for concatenation. What benefit will you derive from it? How will it beneficially improve your code?

I feel that this is a selfish viewpoint. One must also think of what benefit others may derive from one's actions, as well as oneself. In this case, the others are the people migrating to/from Perl. In general this change (the method-call dot) will make it easier for them. Then of course the concatenation operator has to become something else.

If someone coming from another language cannot put in the 30s it takes to read that dots are for concatenation and arrows for method calls, is there really any point in tailoring the language to their needs?

In this case, yes, I think there is a point in that. Part of what makes a good programming language, IMHO, is intuitivity. Most people are already tuned for dots, so to speak. What about switching between Perl and another language, rapidly? Perhaps one is developing in both simultaneously.

And where do you get this idea that perl is so difficult? I haven't met anyone who's found it hard.

I don't believe anyone said that Perl was difficult.

In fact, the only people I've heard complaining are people with their own agenda (i.e., this is why the programming language I know so well is better than perl).

A lot of people happen to like Perl. Some, however, do not. There really isn't a clear way of saying that one language is "better" than another. Mostly such things are determined by general consensus AFAIK. I would suggest you be slightly more tolerant of other's preferences, especially when they do not directly affect you.

Note also, if you do not like the change: IIRC one will be able to specify syntax using pragmas, so you can reverse it, at least in your code, at will...

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In reply to Re: Re: Re (9): Perl6 headaches? by premchai21
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