I think Perl 6 tries to include too much rather than too little. It will be possible to just use a subset
On 16 June 2015 at 10:32, Michael Zedeler <mich...@zedeler.dk> wrote: > On 06/12/15 15:54, Parrot Raiser wrote: > >> Has somebody been following the discussions on types? >> http://xkcd.org/1537/ :-)* >> > Perl6 has something similar to example 9. > > Ranges, hyper-operators as well as the "invocation" operators .+ and .* > doesn't make any sense to me. Those constructs made me stop using Perl and > look elsewhere. It was a hard decision since I've used the language for at > least 15 years. > > I hope Perl6 regexes will make it far beyond Perl itself and the notion of > being able to introduce custom dsl parsed on equal terms as the rest of > Perl 6 is really sweet. > > Regards, > > Michael. > > -- > Michael Zedeler > 70 25 19 99 > mich...@zedeler.dk > > dk.linkedin.com/in/mzedeler | twitter.com/mzedeler | github.com/mzedeler > >
