Re: Define consistent and standard

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Fri, 04 Aug 2000 05:23:37 -0600
Newsgroups perl.perl6.stdlib
Message-ID <5490.965388217@chthon>
>I think no matter what is decided, consistency-wise, someone is going to be
>unhappy with it.  If we use DumpCore() the C programmers won't like us,
>dump_core() and the C++ and Java programmers will throw fits.  I think the
>best thing we can do is decide on what -Perl- programmers want. 
>Unfortunately, this is rather difficult to pin down, but we should probably
>take hints from the language itself.

Sometimes you must lead, not follow.

--tom