On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:13:31 -0500 Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen the following beginning lines of Perl programs in some > examples on the Perl 6 web site: > > #!/usr/bin/env perl6 > v6; > > Isn't the 'v6' superflous given the first line? > > Best regards, > > -Tom The specification doesn't account for shebang lines; a file is determined as Perl 6 if the first non-whitespace-only, non-comment line is something like "use v6", or a class/role/grammar/etc declaration. You may be interested to know that a bare "v6" is now deprecated: https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/b7196bd -Rob
