Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
On some date someone wrote: > : >option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc, > : >and adjust code in advance. It should be possible to do most of this externally as a B module. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Qualit

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-11 Thread Larry Wall
Carl Johan Berglund writes: : At 08.32 + 01-05-11, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >On that topic - it may make sense to have a : > : >use warnings 'Perl6'; : > : >option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc, : >and adjust code in advance. : : Excellent idea! Yes, thoug

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-11 Thread Carl Johan Berglund
At 08.32 + 01-05-11, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On that topic - it may make sense to have a > >use warnings 'Perl6'; > >option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc, >and adjust code in advance. Excellent idea! Cajo. -- Carl Johan Berglund, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 0708-1

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-11 Thread nick
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >* Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/10/2001 14:18]: >> > >> >Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser. The >> >details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen. >> >> Damn straight. One way or another, perl 6 will eat per

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Nathan Wiger
* Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/10/2001 15:20]: > > Yes, it has, in Apocolypse 1: > > Perl 6 must assume it is being fed Perl 5 code until it knows otherwise. > > http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/02/wall.html Yup, I saw that - actually, the discussion I was referencing was post-A

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:58:50PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: > * Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/10/2001 14:18]: > > > > > >Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser. The > > >details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen. > > > > Damn straight. One way or a

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:58 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote: >* Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/10/2001 14:18]: > > > > > >Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser. The > > >details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen. > > > > Damn straight. One way or another, perl 6

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Nathan Wiger
* Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/10/2001 14:18]: > > > >Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser. The > >details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen. > > Damn straight. One way or another, perl 6 will eat perl 5 code close to > painlessly. (Typeglobs, pe

Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:06 PM 5/10/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote: >I'd just like to make this abundantly clear, since there seems to be >some confusion (and hopefully I'm not the one confused). > >*** You will NOT have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs *** > >Perl 6 *will* provide a

You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

2001-05-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
I'd just like to make this abundantly clear, since there seems to be some confusion (and hopefully I'm not the one confused). *** You will NOT have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs *** Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser. The details are not nailed down