At 4:12 PM +0000 1/28/02, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:44:19AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: >> I'm going to just say this, and I ask that everyone who reads it take a >> deep breath, count to 10 and then respond if you wish. >> >> I was reading Apoc 4 and while marveling at the elegence of what Larry's >> doing to the language, I had an epiphany. Perl6 is simply not Perl. > >I remember long ago being very concerned about this very eventuality. I'm >glad that it's not the case. Perl 6 is most definitely Perl.
And just as a data point for that... Damian snagged some code from a few of us to do a 5->6 conversion on for a TPJ article to address this very issue. The code I handed to him had exactly no changes made. None. Could've run (and probably will run) the thing as-is into perl 6 and it would've run just as well as it did under perl 5. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk