Yeah, their sheer number leaves me speechless, too :-)

http://dev.perl.org/rfc

When you read them, bear in mind:

• An RFC isn't an accepted standard, it's just an idea someone had. Not every RFC will be accepted.
• Larry will (is) reading them, and will decide what are good ideas and what are the byproduct of crack smoking.
• There are many different ways one might do something, so there are often many different RFCs on similar topics. This isn't necessarily bad. There are sometimes even two RFCs, one proposing something and the other specifically proposing *not* doing it. The RFCs will help Larry decide.
• The RFCs are discussed on mailing lists. See http://dev.perl.org

My favourite suggestion so far isn't even in an RFC. Larry wants to make "..." valid Perl:

if (...) {
  ...
}
[download]

will actually compile. When "..." is reached at runtime, though, Perl will die saying "you left unimplemented stub code in your program".

I love Perl!

Nat

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