From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-04-17T21:04:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Objects in perl6 (rubyish :)

Mark Sparshatt wrote:
> After reading it my first thought was, My head hurts
> 
> My second thought was that a lot of it is too clever by half.
> 
> I guess we'll have to wait for the Exegesis in order to see how these 
> features are to be used, but at the moment Ruby's object system seems 
> better, becuase it's a lot simpler.

I skimmed it last night.  I see a lot of influences there, but Ruby 
definitely left an impression.

Larry is tackling some interesting problems, such as handling multiple 
dispatch.  It will be interesting to watch, but I agree that there is 
little to temp me back to perl.

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