Hmm, well, don't be too put off by what happens on the mailing lists; we all like to do our share of bikeshed painting, but a lot of that is just noise. Most of the recent design decisions have actually been simplifications to make implementation easier.

As for threading and events, we've purposefully put that off till we understand how Perl can be properly multi-paradigmatic in that realm. The eventual model is probably going to be something like the unified approach taken in this paper. This being Perl, we will not tell people that they're using a thread continuation monad, because that would be scary. Something like "thread control objects" sounds much friendlier. Perl is all about letting people think they know what's going on until they really need to know what's going on. :-)

In reply to Re^2: Perl 6 coming out in 18 months(?) by TimToady
in thread Perl 6 coming out in 18 months(?) by apotheon

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