Re (tilly) 3: Perl 6

Rumor control time.

Perl 6 will, for the most part, work just fine if you accidentally feed it Perl 5. Larry Wall made this design decision clear right from Apocalypse 1. This is, in fact, not an optional decision. There is a tremendous installed Perl 5 code base, and it would be suicide for Perl 6 to not support it in a natural and direct fashion.

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Re: Re (tilly) 3: Perl 6 by theorbtwo (Prior) on Jan 15, 2002 at 09:49 UTC
My bad. (I'm still rather curious as to how he's going to accomplish that, but <shrug>. I can't wait for Apocalypse 3.) Thanks, James Mastros, Just Another Perl Scribe	[reply]
Re (tilly) 5: Perl 6 by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 15, 2002 at 09:53 UTC
Typo time? Apocalypse 3 already exists. The 4'th one is still forthcoming. As for how they are going to do it, the parser will be customizable. Unless it sees something that says, "Perl 6" it will try to parse your file as Perl 5 code.	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 5: Perl 6 by theorbtwo (Prior) on Jan 15, 2002 at 09:59 UTC
Thinko time; I didn't check the count first, and had apparently forgotten. I just tripple-checked; I have read them all. I know about the customizable parser; I hung around perl6-internals for quite a while. I'm just wondering what indicators it's going to use. (My guess is that unless it sees a shebang line with the string "perl6" in it, or a `use 6;`, then it will assume perl5. I'm wondering specificly about -e oneliners.) Thanks, James Mastros, Just Another Perl Scribe	[reply]