I was hoping someone would have some good news, but I still don't see the point in changing Perl's syntax for the sake of (cheesy) dot syntax for method calls. I will assume that the powers that be that are working on Perl6 have good reasons, but as I stated, it just seems like an attempt to make Perl more friendly to java(script) programmers. From what I gleaned from the article (which obviously had some holes) underscores are replacing periods for concatenating and periods are replacing the arrow operator. So, again, to what end? Change and innovation is (almost) always good, but needless change???

matt

In reply to Re: Re: Perl6 headaches? by mattg
in thread Perl6 headaches? by mattg

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