Re^10: The Future of Perl 5

[Your Mother]

That sounds more like, “I want you all to admit you were wrong,” than it sounds like a strategy leading to any action items. It also sounds like retconning strongly against the grain of what the CPAN is; an uncurated collection, not a collective or even its gentrified cousin, a democracy.

[chromatic]

Hm. Well then let me rephrase.

I'd like this "experiment in the CPAN to figure out what can eventually go in the core" to have a better defined process with an explicit step that encourages consolidation. Look at exception handling, for example: Try::Tiny exists and works (and has a few alternatives) but eventually helped get core exception handling improvements such that it's no longer required for correct behavior.