On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:49:07PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> I don't get it.
>
> The first and foremost duty of Perl 6 is to parse and execute Perl 6.
> If it doesn't, it's not Perl 6. I will call this the Prime Directive.
Great, but don't loose sight of the fact that a key feature of "
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:29:41 PDT, Jeff Okamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The
> > timescales of corporations like Sun are not the same as those commonly
> > encountered in the open software arena.
>
> Ditto for HP.
Which is more extreme (HP9000/L1000, HP-UX 11.00 + March 2001 patches):
% /u
Tim Bunce wrote:
> If the file doesn't start with Perl 6 thingy then
> it's Perl 5. Period.
To mandate the impossible is to mandate failure.
"Nothing can parse perl like Perl."
Why is that?
> My reading of Larry's comments is that it won't be "in" our "new
> beautiful code". [Umm, pride bef
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> "Nothing can parse perl like Perl."
Just saying it doesn't make it true, you know.
--
Keep the number of passes in a compiler to a minimum.
-- D. Gries
At 10:16 AM 4/17/2001 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:49:07PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > People seem to think that telling Perl 5 apart from Perl 6 is trivial.
>
>My reading of Larry's comments is that it will be _made_ trivial at the
>file scope level. If the file doe
> > > The
> > > timescales of corporations like Sun are not the same as those commonly
> > > encountered in the open software arena.
> >
> > Ditto for HP.
>
> Which is more extreme (HP9000/L1000, HP-UX 11.00 + March 2001 patches):
>
> % /usr/contrib/bin/perl -v
>
> This is perl, version 4.0
>
Dan Sugalski writes:
: At 10:16 AM 4/17/2001 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
: >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:49:07PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
: > > People seem to think that telling Perl 5 apart from Perl 6 is trivial.
: >
: >My reading of Larry's comments is that it will be _made_ trivial at the
: >
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Tim Bunce wrote:
> > If the file doesn't start with Perl 6 thingy then
> > it's Perl 5. Period.
>
> To mandate the impossible is to mandate failure.
>
> "Nothing can parse perl like Perl."
>
> Why is that?
Because perl has a bunch
