A. Pagaltzis skribis 2006-09-20 22:29 (+0200): > * Fagyal Csongor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-20 17:00]: > > I am afraid that when I will be starting to write Perl6 code, > > it will be too much Perl5-ish, > Even with a style guide, your Perl 6 code will still be > Perl-5-ish. And even once it???s not anymore, six months later you > will discover that it???s not really Perl-6-ish either. Until you > become fluent in the language, your code is going to be less > elegant than it could be. A style guide can give you a bag of > broad hints for the most obvious things, but fluency is something > that comes from practice, and that inevitably takes time.
I've been thinking in Perl 6 terms for quite a while now, and while Pugs hasn't implemented enough to bring life to all my ideas, I do notice that there is a sharp distinction between "Perl 5"-ishness and "Perl 6"-ishness. A good example is the way you thought about param's dual function in terms of arity/context, while my first thought nowadays is to use a type that simply implements two kinds of access. With all due respect, I already consider the former old fashioned :) A style guide is very hard to write. It indeed boils down to fluency. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
