Re: RFC 164 (v1) Replace =~, !~, m//, and s/// with match() and subst()

[Nathan Torkington]

Michael Maraist writes:
> Compatibility is going to have to be maintained somehow.  And we can either
> have some sort of perl6 designator (such as the pragma) to designate
> incompatible (and otherwise ambiguous) code, or we're going to have to
> continue tacking on syntactic sugar to legacy code.

The compatibility path for perl5 to perl6 is via a translator.  It
is not expected that perl6 will run perl5 programs unchanged.  The
complexity of the translator and the depth of the changes will be
decided by the decisions Larry makes.

Nat