On 4/15/02 5:16 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
> if we don't support this, people will be forever having to create Perl 6
> adapter classes just so that they can make use of legacy Perl 5 code. :-(
Okay, how about making it a pragma that's not enabled by default? So all
those Perl 5 porters can do their mechanical transformation of ->{} to .{}
and then add a "no strict hashmethods;" (or something) to the top of the
file? Leaving auto-method-call-on-{} in Perl 6 enabled by default seems
like a tacit endorsement of that style (albeit a purely visual distinction
in Perl 6, but why even endorse that?)
(stage 2: bargaining ;)
-John
