Re: What's broken in Perl 5?

There's "broken" and then there's "not working", which is different. The former is synonymous for

It isn't going to work as we would like because the structural changes required are basically a complete rewrite.

"not working" is best defined as

This is a bug that we're working on that will be fixed soon.

INIT is "broken" and won't be fixed until Perl6. Unicode and threads, however, were "not working" in Perls before 5.8. (Unicode is arguably still "not working", but that's now a PBKAC, not with Perl.)

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.

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Re^2: What's broken in Perl 5? by ihb (Deacon) on May 02, 2005 at 13:18 UTC
What about "this is a bug but no one cares to fix it"? Update: added the small text. `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!	[reply]
Re^3: What's broken in Perl 5? by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 02, 2005 at 13:18 UTC
If no-one cares, then is it a bug? The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.	[reply]
Re^4: What's broken in Perl 5? by Fletch (Bishop) on May 02, 2005 at 13:36 UTC
If a problem report is filled in the forrest, does anyone hear it? Can Larry create a regexp so complicated not even he can predict what it'll match? What really is the deal about the Oracle and woodchucks?	[reply]