Yeah, their sheer number leaves me speechless, too :-)
http://dev.perl.org/rfc
When you read them, bear in mind:
- An RFC isn't an accepted standard, it's just an idea
someone had. Not every RFC will be accepted.
- Larry will (is) reading them, and will decide what
are good ideas and what are the byproduct of crack
smoking.
- There are many different ways one might do something,
so there are often many different RFCs on similar topics.
This isn't necessarily bad. There are sometimes even
two RFCs, one proposing something and the other specifically
proposing *not* doing it. The RFCs will help Larry decide.
- The RFCs are discussed on mailing lists. See
http://dev.perl.org
My favourite suggestion so far isn't even in an RFC.
Larry wants to make "..." valid Perl:
if (...) {
...
}
will actually compile. When "..." is reached at runtime,
though, Perl will die saying "you left unimplemented stub
code in your program".
I love Perl!
Nat