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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Saturday January 03, 2004
04:50 PM

Perl Wishes for 2004

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In retrospect, I really don't want autoboxing for Perl. It seemed like a nice hack, but until I know what problem it solves, I don't see a need for it. The top five things I would like for Perl, however, are:

  1. A reentrant regular expression engine. I think could actually implement a proper predicate logic system were it not for this limitation.
  2. A clean OO model.
  3. "Defined or" ($foo // $bar; $baz //= 3) become part of the core.
  4. Method signatures (with method overloading).
  5. A built-in GUI system (preferably wxPerl).

Santa got me clothes, books, and sushi cookware instead.


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  • 3. "Defined or" ($foo // $bar; $baz //= 3) become part of the core.
    "Defined or" is already in 5.9.x.
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    "Cake or Death!" .... "Cake please"

    • That makes me happy. I heard it was going to make it into 5.10, so this is nice confirmation. It was also, I hasten to add, the only item on the list that I thought would actually happen.

  • 1. Reetrant regexes : this isn't trivial and needs some effort to understand how the engine works overall. Volunteers welcome.

    2. Are you implicitly saying that the OO model of perl isn't clean ?? ;)

    3. Done :)

    4. Scott Walters suggested recently that making stashes tieable makes it possible to implement method overloading on method signature (for a particular class).

    5. Ain't gonna happen. Patches not welcome, for once.

    • I shan't volunteer for the re-entrant regex fix as my C-fu is weak and when we tell scary stories around the campfire, someone always brings up someone's journey into the regex engine's depths. I'd rather perform a colonoscopy on a flatulent pachyderm.

      It's a shame, though. without reentrant regexes, the utility of (??{}) is severely limited. If it were fixed, we could open up an entirely new class of programming.

      And I would never say that Perl's OO model isn't clean. Why, I just think it's oodles of

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