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• Embrace the change pudge... (Score:1)

  by 2shortplanks (968)

  Well, you've got some choices to make. You can embrace the change or you can fight it.

  Perl 6 is Perl 5, but more so. I'm not talking about the internals. I'm not talking about the syntax. It's the feeling of the language that's important, and the feeling of the community. As long the languages understand each other and work to develop common ground, everything should be fine.

  Perl 6 isn't a magic bullet, but what it is no more and no less another generation of Perl, community and all. Like the prod
  • Re:Embrace the change pudge... (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25) on 2002.04.16 9:42 (#7080) Journal

    Perl 6 is Perl 5, but more so. I'm not talking about the internals. I'm not talking about the syntax. It's the feeling of the language that's important, and the feeling of the community.

    Let's see:

    sub foo {
        return 0 is true;
    }

    I don't think that got the same feeling as Perl5. There are going to be lots of new idioms in Perl6 that don't have a reason to exist in Perl5. At the same time, these idioms are being added so that the magical behaviors we have come to expect from Perl will continue to exist -- and multiply.

    That's the intent, anyway.

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    • Re:Embrace the change pudge... (Score:1)

      by 2shortplanks (968)

      sub foo {
          return 0 is true;
      }

      Gah, that's nothing more than what all the punk kids are using to write:

      sub foo {
          return dualvar(0,"true");
      }

      these days. In my day we had to rub two scalars together to get

      sub foo {
          return "0E0";
      }

      and we thought ourselves lucky to have that