Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Milscvaer
Hello, I believe it would be a very good idea and quite essential, if Perl6 is not simply a superset of Perl5 and thus by default back compatable with Perl5, for Parrot/Perl6 to also contain complete, 100% backwards compatability capability with perl5 code, either in a seperate perl5 parser

Re: Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Matthew Walton
I suggest you read more about Parrot... it's designed to allow these things. There is a project (Ponie) to make Perl 5 run on Parrot, and there will be other languages as well - which will be able to call each others libraries. Making the Perl 5 libraries available to Perl 6 being a primary

Re: Perl6/Parrot and Backwards Compatability

2004-10-31 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest you read more about Parrot... it's designed to allow these things. There is a project (Ponie) to make Perl 5 run on Parrot, and there will be other languages as well - which will be able to call each others libraries. Making the Perl 5