Many thanks for your expansive answers. It is a great pity that they didn't call perl 6 something else. Well I shall be sticking with Perl 5 as I need to get stuff done that others can use now :-). Also as a language I personally prefer it to what I have seen of p6 as I find p5 cleaner (personal feelings after attending a presentation on the subject - I'm sure P6 will be great one Christmas...).

I shall be doing my bit for Perl 5 as well :-).

Thank you all again.

Tony.