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Even though it's not here yet... (Score:2)

by Damian (784)
...it's already having a great effect on Perl 5 development. For example, in the deprecation of pseudohashes, and in the incorporation of the // operator in 5.10.
And useful (and usable) parts of Perl 6 *are* available already in the form of Perl 5 modules like:
- Perl6::Parameters
- Perl6::Interpolators
- Perl6::Currying
- Perl6::Gather
- Perl6::Placeholders
- Perl6::Form
- Perl6::Say
- Perl6::Slurp
- Perl6::Export
To say nothing of the way that my own on-going struggle to implement the Perl6::Rules module is u
- Re:Even though it's not here yet... (Score:2)
  
  by pudge (1) on 2004.05.11 19:01 (#30705) Homepage Journal
  
  Not to ne a noodge, but I find it humorous that the first good thing you mention about Perl 6 is that it prompted the removal of a feature -- that no one used or understood -- from Perl 5. :-)
  
  I am not complaining. Keep up the work. You're right, it's produced some good fruit, and someday may be a nice language to use. I don't think TorgoX was complaining either (as someone else implied), but some of us do get idly curious about it from time to time.
  
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