There'll be a perl 5 compatible version of the regex engine, to make that transition easier.
will this be built-in, or a core module... or what? i'm reading conflicting info about the size and shape of the perl 6 core, and i want to get a better understanding about what will be inside.... that is, if any of that's been decided yet.

(I've also promised a perl 5 parser for parrot, but people seem to enjoy heaping scorn on that idea, the silly twits, so we'll leave that one off for now)
i love this idea. not only does it help decouple parrot's release from perl 6, but it gives me a chance to move my perl 5 programs to parrot without moving them to perl 6. if the risk of conversion to the parrot interpreter is less than that of perl 6 conversion, it will greatly ease the transition to an all perl 6 runtime.

~Particle *accelerates*

In reply to Re^2: Perl 6 by particle
in thread Perl 5 to Perl 6 code conversion by kiat

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