in reply to Re: making perl more forgiving
in thread making perl more forgiving

We should put a feature like this in Perl. Oh wait! We already did.

I've always been leery of the "why don't we fix something?" comments. Many of them come from people who aren't willing (or even capable of doing the work they suggest. It feels rather dishumble to take credit for the features of Perl that you like if you're not willing to take the blame for the features you don't like. Doubly so if you haven't contributed patches.

Update: edited a bit to be more gentle.

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Re: Re: Re: making perl more forgiving
by jepri (Parson) on May 16, 2004 at 09:07 UTC
    That intent was most definately not there. The context in my mind when I wrote the comment was an impersonal 'we', as in "Hey, how about we (somebody) fix this?". In real life, my tone of voice and inflection would have made it clear.

    I mention further down in the discussion Perl5 is too scary for me - that's hardly the sort of thing someone says when attempting to steal someone elses work.

    OTOH thanks for pointing it out gently.

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