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Re^15: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018by LanX (Saint) |
on Apr 25, 2018 at 12:36 UTC ( [id://1213528]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Many of these XS modules build on PadWalker or offer a pure Perl fall back or reflect inspection which should be supported by a stable API. But I don't wanna discuss Moose, there are good reasons why I prefer Moo. (Ironically I never published my Macro module on cpan because I couldn't get rid of PadWalker dependency) You and Reini are obsessed of speed, that's why you try to eliminate @_. But Ruby convinced people as a "cleaner Perl" while being half as fast. Mind you that computers became 1000 times faster in 15 years* and try to calculate the positive effect of "slow" signatures introduced in the early 2000s. Did anyone yell at you because the experimental signature implementation breaks anything? It's just syntactic sugar injecting pure Perl code in the body. (Well except of me? ;-) I told my clients not to use it, because if the API for named args is missing, the risk of another "smart-match" disaster is too big. We are becoming a community of grandpa's who want no change and are driving away fresh blood which can't find confidence in a language which not only lacks signatures, but can't evolve anymore and seems to be locked in a dead end of evolution.
Cheers Rolf
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