Why does writing PMCs suck?

[Matt Diephouse]

It's been said that writing PMCs sucks. This is your chance to tell
the world why. Because for things to get better, we have to know what
sucks.

I'll get things started:

1) pmc2c.pl is very fragile - when it gets input it doesn't like, it
just ignores it (see RT#39313)
2) You can't use :slurpy, :optional, or :named arguments. Even if
there's support under the hood, there's no way to write a PMC with
these arguments.

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Matt Diephouse
http://matt.diephouse.com

[Chromatic]

3) The documentation is poor. There's a lot of copy and paste coding
occurring, and that leads to duplication.

4) There's a lot of required duplication.

5) The only code re-use mechanism is inheritance. Roles would be nice.

-- c