Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1)

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:19:38PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> Er, I don't get it.  I'm proposing that if perl 6 determines it's been 
> given perl 5 code, it does "exec perl5 $0".  So thereafter it's as though 
> perl 6 never existed as far as that code is concerned; whatever it wants to 
> do should be completely independent of any perl 6 code.  

So ... when a "perl6" program uses a "perl5" library, what happens?
If we go with Larry's rule that a package declaration unambiguously
says you're parsing perl 5, then this situation WILL exist.

-Scott
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