> Larry Wall was so angry about closed java classes that he wanted them open and slow. On the other hand, Damian Conway, the perl6 designer, wanted them closed

> Larry Wall was so angry about closed java classes that he wanted them open and slow. On the other hand, Damian Conway, the perl6 designer, wanted them closed by default. You have to look at the current raku design if they are still open or closed. You don't have to look at the design. You can look at the implementation. And in the implementation, they are closed. However, you can open them, but that invalidates any optimizations done so far. So generally, people don't do that, unless it is at compile time. > One of the many reasons why raku is so slow. Hi Reini, still the same grumpy person, eh? At least Raku is NOT a language that is hooked on needing C extensions whenever it gets too slow. And judging by the amount of modules with C extensions on CPAN, that is quite often. This addiction will prevent it from ever moving forward.