On 2004-04-13 at 13:16:02, David Cantrell wrote:
Perl 6, we are promised, will try to run "legacy" code unchanged. How
will it spot such legacy code?
My understanding has been that perl6 will assume a program is Perl 5 unless it sees a Perl 6 keyword such as 'module' or 'class'.
That could be problematic, because if Perl 6 sees something like:
my %myhash;
%myhash{'foo'} = 'bar';Is it going to think 'ahah, perl 6' or 'perl 5 with errors'?
That's assuming my understanding of hash subscripting and variable declarations in Perl 6 is even slightly correct, of course.
