I had a related thought. We want Perl 6 to be the best it can be out of the
gate when it is declared production ready at Christmas or whatever. If it is
better for the default to be that parameters must be defined where not
explicitly declared otherwise, then that is what Perl 6 should specify
Following on the :D not :D thread, something odd stuck out.
On 10/13/2015 03:17 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
But hopefully none of them breaking backwards compatibility on such a
large scale. The last few backwards incompatible changes still cause
pain in the ecosystem. We have 390+ modules, and h
* Moritz Lenz (mor...@faui2k3.org) [151013 07:18]:
> >In Perl5, you get slower code when you test for definedness... in Perl6
> >you get faster (better optimized) code. That's a big difference.
>
> Do you? Did you actually measure that?
For Perl6? Well, Liz tells us that it can be optimized be
On 10/12/2015 09:51 PM, Mark Overmeer wrote:
* Moritz Lenz (mor...@faui2k3.org) [151012 15:32]:
. are they using :D correctly?
Yes, though not everybody uses :D as much as they do. Do you check that
all the parameters that your Perl 5 methods/subs receive are defined? If
not, you wouldn't
