From: Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:09, Nikola Janceski wrote: > > I just found out that Perl 6 is going to be mainly OO (object > > oriented for you beginners). Can someone give me a direct URL of > > where I can find what is really going to happen? I do lots of Perl > > programming and I really want to determine if this is going to be a > > good thing, or bad. > > > > I really don't mean to take time away from you folks (ie. Japhy, > > Jenda, etc.). > > > > Nikola Janceski > > First let me clear up some confusion: Perl 6 will still be Perl. You > will be able to do everything you used to be able to do in Perl 5 with > some small caveats: variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say > @array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is > changing from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of > operator '->' is changing to '.', and various other small things. > Also note that there WILL be a Perl5->Perl6 converter.
Ah well ... it will HURT. I'm sure I'll envy the newcomers. Since it'll take ages to get used to the new $@% meaning and the new operators. I really wonder why couldn't we couldn't keep the good old -> :-((( Jenda =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ========== There is a reason for living. There must be. I've seen it somewhere. It's just that in the mess on my table ... and in my brain I can't find it. --- me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
