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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 TorgoX (1933) <sburkeNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2004.05.09 17:08 (#30677) Homepage Journal
  
  Thanks for all your replies. As I was writing my initial mope, my general crankiness was spilling over onto everything, making everything in the world seem intractable and impossible. Then I remembered that I hadn't eaten in twelve hours, and that my blood sugar was about nil, turning me into a cranky woozy mess.
  Next time I go brain shopping, I'm getting one with a UPS.
  
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