Anyone reading the perl6-language list has seen the varied (almost 100% positive) reaction to Larry's latest talk (which I am looking for a transcript to).

As some of you may know, perl 6 is going to be in some ways a drastic departure, and in other ways a subtle change. One of the ways that has been suggested to manage this is to maintain both a perl 6 and a perl 5 binary on disk so that perl 5 stuff will never be broken. Some things of note that will be broken: 

@foo[5]

[download]
Apparently some people like doing this. Even a friend of mine likes to write code that way. Not me. At any rate, there is talk that we should remove some of these inconsistencies from the syntax and semantics to make perl more clear and less breakable.

I havent quite decided what the merits are of relegating perl5 stuff to a perl5 binary, but a preliminary judgement of the idea is that I like it a lot.

I'd really like to know what other people have to say about this. For the curious, the archives of the list are on dev.perl.com.

brother dep.

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