When you take your driving test(uk), they emphasis the importance of never crossing your hands on the steering wheel, and will fail you if you do.

But if you watch any of those "Police chase" TV programs with the in-car footage, watch the drivers hands.

If crossing your hands or arms were absolutely verbotten, then the Schumacher brothers, and all their compatriates in F1, and every other form of motor sport, would be in jail.

All rules have caveats. Knowing how and when to apply the rules is a part of the trick. Having systems flexibile enough to allow for the caveats is another. Perl's strength is that it recognises the need for caveats and allows for them. without necessarially making them too easy to use.

The most heartening thing about what I see in the Perl 6 development, is the continuation of that permissive, practical approach to the design.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco.
Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

In reply to Re: Never, never, never by BrowserUk
in thread Never, never, never by johnnywang

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.