Quote #103

I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.

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  1. At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
  2. Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
  3. The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and l…
  4. Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
  5. Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-)
  6. I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
  7. The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
  8. It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

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