Re: Perl 6 modules plan

[email protected] (Kirrily Robert) Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:51:22 -0400
Newsgroups perl.perl6.stdlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[ moving to perl6-stdlib only; -meta doesn't need this. ]

Jarkko wrote:
>> Sys:: should be declared redundant and silly.  Sys::Syslog simply
>> hurts my teeth.
>
>Text:: is another silliness, though from for slightly different
>reasons.  The problem with Text:: is that it awfully vague, and thusly
>carries almost no information.

Yup, to both points.

While we're at it, I think that ExtUtils:: really needs renaming.
Nobody talks about "Perl extensions", they talk about modules.  Or
possibly just about Perl.  I actually think the stuff in ExtUtils would
be better off in Devel:: with the other developer tools.

K.


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