Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
FEAR: The Perl6 process is driving away too many good developers
FEAR: Perl6 will not be as portable as p5
FEAR: Perl6 is un-necessary and the time, money, and resources
Luke Palmer wrote:
Every regex engine in every language uses $1 or \1. This includes Java,
JavaScript, C, PHP, Python, awk, sed, the GNU regex libs, etc. Somehow
other languages seem ok with this, because it's a widely-used convention.
Perl 6's patterns are _not_ regexes anymore. But I doubt t
Luke Palmer wrote:
Okay, I may still be missing your point, so let me try to summarize
just to be sure we're on the same page: You say that the thing that
is going to hinder migration to Perl 6 is the fact that it's different
from Perl 5.
Intentionally trite oversimplification. My problem is
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 10/20/05, Nate Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
$1 is a prime example. $0 means the program name (all scopes). $1 is the
first match. It's been that way for a very, very, very long time, and
it works just great. There is no *compelling* reason to change this,
Nicholas Clark wrote:
$1 is a prime example. $0 means the program name (all scopes). $1 is the
first match. It's been that way for a very, very, very long time, and
it works just great. There is no *compelling* reason to change this,
other than to satisfy a few people that think it "should be
Rob Kinyon wrote:
On 10/20/05, Nate Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And, it shares alot with other languages people know and use.
That's more because languages are incestuous (like Perl) instead of
languages independently arriving at the same conclusions. Yes, the
"while&q
Larry Wall wrote:
I think there can be some kind of community metainformation that sets
defaults appropriately. And if not, the site/project can certainly
establish defaults. On the other hand, a lot of projects do simply
want to specify the version and author explicitly eveyr time,
and they'd
Larry Wall wrote:
This is one of those accomodations to the real world, like everyone
agreeing on a standard URI format. We're really trying to keep
these module names close to what you'd see as the name of, say,
the corresponding .rpm file. These modules have to have names that
work outside of
Larry Wall wrote:
Well, we thought about opening it up like that, but we really kinda
need to establish what is an official part of the "long name" for
uniqueness purposes, and try to avoid too much visual clutter in
standard usage.
Going with that... I would think that the "official" part is r
Stevan Little wrote:
Nicholas,
This is addressed in S11, here is a link:
http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Perl6-Bible/lib/Perl6/Bible/S11.pod
To summarize, the syntax to load the modules is:
use Dog-1.2.1;
While the syntax to create a specific version of a module is:
my Dog-1.3.4-cpan:JRA
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