On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:16:32PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: : And in fact, I expect that PBP was written to be forward compatible : to Perl 6, as it could describe styles that should be natural in Perl : 6, even if less so in Perl 5.
Indeed, I know for a fact that it was. (Though the treatment of /m ends up making ^ and $ mean the wrong thing from a P6 point of view.) Larry