Thank you all for the help and tips!

Followup,

This is my notes on Inline::Perl5. I hope this is useful to others.

-T 


#!/usr/bin/perl6

# Inline::Perl5 test
# Reference: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5/commit/cc683dae98df
+19db8cfbb551f7a87ef79bdc2a8b

use Inline::Perl5;
use Term::ANSIColor:from<Perl5>;

# my $Red   = Term::ANSIColor.RED;
# my $Reset = Term::ANSIColor.RESET;
my $Red   = color('red');
my $Reset = color('reset');

print "High Level method:\n";
print $Red ~ "--Red--" ~ $Reset ~ "\n\n"; 


print "Low Level method:\n";
my $P5Color = Inline::Perl5.new;
$P5Color.use( 'Term::ANSIColor' );
my $ResetColor = "RESET";
print ( $P5Color.call( 'Term::ANSIColor::GREEN' ) ~
        "Red\n" ~
        $P5Color.call( "Term::ANSIColor::$ResetColor" ) ~
        "\n" );

my $p6str = "Perl 6 String";
my $perl5colors = Inline::Perl5.new();
$perl5colors.run(qq{
    use Term::ANSIColor qw [ BLUE RESET ];
    print "p5 term with color\n" . 
    BLUE . "I am blue\n" . 
    "$p6str" . RESET . "\n\n";
});


print "\'run\' method:\n";
my $perl5 = Inline::Perl5.new();
$perl5.run( ' print "Perl 5\' local time is " . localtime . "\n\n"; ' 
+);


print "Test of return values\n";
my $RetStr = Inline::Perl5.new();
print $RetStr.run(qq{ return ( "P5 return string\n\n" ) });

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