On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > But perl6 is not a version of perl5.
I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I disagree. I believe that's a short-sighted viewpoint that has some value in the short term but is likely to lead us to make decisions we'll regret in future. I think most of us would agree that perl6 will run perl5 code, to some degree, at some point in the future. I'm thinking of that future point. I think most of us would agree that CPAN is the "jewel in the crown" of Perl and we look forward to the day when perl6 can run *existing* perl5 modules from CPAN. At that point I see little difference between the fact that perl 5.8 can't run perl 5.10 code that says "use feature ...", and the fact that perl 5.18 can't run perl 6.1 code. Tim.
