Quote #160
The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
More from Larry Wall
- Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
- Beauty? What's that?
- For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
- I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
- People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
- I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
- Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
- Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. :-)