Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-20 Thread Andrew Kirkpatrick
Numeric tower String manipulation at the byte, code-point and character levels Metaoperators NativeCall Multiple dispatch Rich and gradual type system Inline::* modules especially Inline::Perl5 Junctions Laziness On 21 August 2016 at 08:46, Steve Mynott wrote: > Grammars

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-20 Thread Steve Mynott
Grammars Concurrency Built in OO More than 1 implimenation Functional syntax S On Saturday, 20 August 2016, Tony Edwardson wrote: > Hi All > > In a few weeks I will be presenting a talk on a technical meeting for > Milton Keynes Perl Mongers and I have decided to try

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-20 Thread Parrot Raiser
The REPL (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop) is a major benefit that doesn't get mentioned much. It's going to be a great help in training courses; so much so that I'm trying to think of a way of achieving one in Perl 5. On 8/20/16, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >> On 20 Aug 2016, at

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-20 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 20 Aug 2016, at 22:14, Tony Edwardson wrote: > In a few weeks I will be presenting a talk on a technical meeting for Milton > Keynes Perl Mongers and I have decided to try and sell the benefits of Perl 6 > to a bunch of Perl 5 experts. > I am interested in your