FWIW, I personally find these posted snippets and alternative solutions in Perl 6 interesting. For someone who doesn't have the time or inclination to fully delve into the project (yet), they can serve as a sort of recurring flag, to show that Perl 6 has already achieved much, you can do interesting stuff in it and it's still going ahead.

maybe we could use the post title to mark such posts. it might not be interesting to perl5 users, it might also not be interesting to perl 6 users, but it's definitely interesting for those who know perl5 and learn perl 6.

if we mark such posts with something like "perl5 vs perl6" in the title it might become a nice collection of examples what perl5 users want to learn about perl 6.

"So what?", you'd be entitled to ask, and it would be a fair question.

Of course it is a fair question. And the simple answer is that I educate people about Perl. Which is what this site is all about, after all.

If anyone had a question about a Perl6 script would they come to the Monastery? I can't remember seeing any (but I could be wrong on that).

Having tried to answer most of them, I have noticed them. Maybe you need to take a second look, or raise your awareness.

Anyhows, it may be worth posting a meditation on the relationship between the Monastery and Perl6 to start a discussion on the subject.

You mean like Re: What is the scope of Perl Monks?? or maybe New PerlMonks for Perl 6 - A Good Idea?

It is a different language isn't it?

It's a different language than Perl 5, and still Perl.

I really enjoy moritz's Perl 6 responses. I think they're a practical and effective way to promote the language.

You might even see moritz as a modern day merlyn. :) You see, twenty years ago merlyn loved Perl 3 so much that he insisted on answering requests for Unix shell/sed/awk help with snippets of Perl code. So much so that many posters resorted to inserting "No Perl please" in their posts! As you might expect, this only provoked him further, and the barrage of Perl 3 snippet responses intensified.

I don't want to sound jerk, but what's wrong about Mortiz's answer? How many times somebody asks something and we say "use shell script for that", "use this module instead of that other module" or "do it in C" ?

Is up to the person that makes the question to pick the best answer for his/her problem - remember TIMTOWTDI. You can just ignore those answers you don't like.

On the other hand P5 and P6 share *almost* the same community ( fortunately ) so its perfectly fine to me to use the same tools - in this case the perlmonks - to discuss ideas, post snippets and suggest possible solutions.

As someone who had a Perl6 question, I went to IRC and to the Monastery. moritz told me about KeySet, which will be the exact solution to my problem, once it works. In the meantime, I'm using a plain old hash.

In my trivial perl6 sudoku-solver, I do pass multiple arrays into a routine.

On the other hand, while the knowledge that it will be available might raise excitement for the metamorphosis of the rudimentary Perl6 into a hallucinogenic butterfly, it isn't really relevant to this week's requirements, is it?

I'd grade myself somewhere between senior novice and junior intermediate and that snippet leaves me cold.

Do you like using explicit references? (I didn't ask "Do you like the effect you get when you must use explicit references in Perl 5?") Me, I won't miss them. Roll on Perl 6.