Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>* Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/10/2001 14:18]:
>> >
>> >Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser. The
>> >details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen.
>>
>> Damn straight. One way or another, perl 6 will eat perl 5 code close to
>> painlessly. (Typeglobs, perhaps, aside)
On that topic - it may make sense to have a
use warnings 'Perl6';
option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc,
and adjust code in advance.
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