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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:18 AM, David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote: > Getting all mad because Perl isn't C++ seems unnecessary: these > problems can be solved by adding an additional layer of indirection, > and in so doing adding the requested list of features to the new and > different system. I think they know that (Stevan wrote Class::MOP, after all) and they were trying to develop something without the overhead of the extra indirection. My point was that I think a lot could have been done within the constraints of Perl's existing paradigm and that didn't happen because they were trying to make Perl do something against its nature. David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdgThread Previous | Thread Next