I stared at IO::Lambda, and it made my head hurt.

I'm pretty good at event loops, and POE, and even coderefs and closures. But I'm just not getting it from your docs and examples... too many things are magical. I think it's because you're referencing currying and monads and other stuff that I never totally understood.

I'm saying this because I want to understand, but can't. I'm looking for something that's easier and deeper than POE. But I still think I'd have to stare at this for a long time before I could even start.

Maybe if you remove most of the "just like X in Y" references in the docs, and make the docs more standalone. Maybe I could just go through the docs and point out every external reference I don't know about. I realize it must seem tedious to describe something that you already know from somewhere else, and you think everyone else must already know, but we don't all have your experience.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: IO::Lambda: call for participation by merlyn
in thread IO::Lambda: call for participation by dk

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