Yes, I think the comment was targeted at Perl 6, but five years ago it seemed that Perl 6 might be coming soon, and that we would want to use it.

At this point, we have so much existing code that I'm not sure we have the resources to refactor all of it. Perl 6 is supposed to be back compatible with perl 5, but if it is successful I assume we will eventually move our major codes over. When we do this, not having to catch all the unquoted keys would be helpful. Supposedly there will be a converter. I hope someone is clever enough to write one that actually works; this is the achilles heel of TMTOWTDI perhaps.

When will all this happen? three years? five years?

In reply to Re^2: quotes in hash keys by kinaseman
in thread quotes in hash keys by kinaseman

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