On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can't be everybody's darling, as much as we would love to. That's a fair statement, however do consider that perl5 is still a darling for many system administrators and command-line warriors who have long since left awk and sed far behind and never looked back. In this use case, perl5 still rules, and I would suspect that you wouldn't want to simply throw away these users. My (admittedly limited) experience with rakudo leads me to believe that the one-liner or power-tool usage we've come to expect with perl5 may simply not exist in perl6. [frank@zino00 ~]$ echo "a b c" | perl -lane 'print $F[1]' b [frank@zino00 ~]$ echo "a b c" | perl6 -lane 'print $F[1]' ===SORRY!=== Unable to open filehandle from path '-lane' [frank@zino00 ~]$ echo "a b c" | perl -pe 's/b/BEE/ if /^a/' a BEE c [frank@zino00 ~]$ echo "a b c" | perl6 -pe 's/b/BEE/ if /^a/' ===SORRY!=== Unable to open filehandle from path '-pe' These are the kinds of things I do every single day many times per day without a second thought. It would be a shame IMO if I couldn't continue to use perl6 in such a fashion. Just my own 2 cents. Thanks. --frank
