Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Cantrell writes: >> A few days ago I briefly discussed with Nicholas Clark (current perl 5.8 >> pumpking) about making perl5 code forward-compatible with perl6. A >> quick look through the mailing list archives didn't turn up anything >> obvious, and I don't recall any mechanism being presented in any of the >> Apocalypses, so ... > > Well, there is one, as far as I understand it. Your "use perl5;" is > spelled "package". That is, perl will assume Perl 6 unless it sees > "package SomethingOrOther;" (since Perl 6 calls them "module"s). So, to > force Perl 5 interpretation, use:
I thought that the rule was .pm files were deemed to be Perl 6 unless they began with 'package', but that anything else was deemed to be Perl 5 unless it began with 'module main'. That way legacy scripts will run happily and perl 6 scripts can either use a perl6 shebang or start with 'module main'. -- Beware the Perl 6 early morning joggers -- Allison Randal
