You are and are not right. Yeah you can run Perl4 scripts by perl5 while you ... well, they all say you'll be able to run Perl5 scripts by perl6 ;-) But conceptually I think there was a huge gap between Perl4 and Perl5. You've got real references, real datastructures, real lexical variables, objects ... an improved shell became a fullblown general-purpose language. So yes, you'll get some new operators, you get different precedence (ack?!?), you get some more OO features, you get what non-perl-people call function prototypes, you get a brand new source tree, but ... well, it's hard to compare :-)

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In reply to Re^3: perl6 or not perl6 ... by Jenda
in thread perl6 or not perl6 ... by monkey_boy

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