Perhaps we need to defer const for a while (3.0?)

[Bruce Adams]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:30:41 -0000, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Bruce Adams:
>> Larry Wall seems unafraid and perhaps even keen on breaking changes
>
> That's just one of the many things that makes me (happily) use Python  
> instead... ;o)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Disclaimer: I am not a serious Perl user. Its just a language built on top
of sed and awk thats not a good basis. C++ is a much better one (for D).
Still python has its own pitfuls. How many versions of popen do you need  
to get it right?
There are currently popen popen2 popen3 & popen4 and none of these  
includes code
to workaround Windows not being Posix. When something is broken a breaking  
change is
sometimes required. I detest having to support old broken ways of doing  
things but accept
that its an occasional necessity.