On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > On 07/06/2020 13:31, Parrot Raiser wrote: > > Create an updated version, perhaps with an "rk" prefix, (preserving > > any text alignment, since "p6" and "rk" are the same length), then > > change the "pk" version simply to invoke the "rk"? > > > > Existing code should continue to work, albeit nanoseconds slower, > > while new code can be culturally consistent. > > Why nanoseconds slower? (I won't notice them, but why would a name change > slow things?) > > If alignment is not a concern, then p6 and raku are equivalent?
I believe the idea is that two modules are installed on the user's machine: the renamed rk-* one and a single-line p6-* shim that only imports the rk-* one. Thus, other programs that use the p6-* name will load that first, then load the rk-* one, hence the nanoseconds delay. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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