On Thursday, January 21, 2016, Bruce Gray <bruce.g...@acm.org> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 2:36 AM, Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21 January 2016 at 01:40, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
> >> On 2016-01-20 5:02 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > There are at least two source code translators in progress:
> > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-ToPerl6/
> > https://github.com/Util/Blue_Tiger/
...
> I am the author of one of the translators (Blue Tiger),
> and I welcome feedback on which parts are missing that
> would (be|have been) useful to you; it will help me prioritize development.
>
> For automated translation, see
> http://docs.perl6.org/language/5to6-nutshell#Automated_Translation
> Blue Tiger (p526) and Perl-ToPerl6 (perlmogrify) are the most useable.
> Perlito's website is down.
>
> ( For manual translation, read all of the 5to6-* docs at the top of
> http://docs.perl6.org/language.html , or email me ).
>
> Below, I have a terminal log of installation and execution of both
> translators.
..
Perl 5 source
==========
> my @aaa = qw( a b c d e f g );
> for my $c (@aaa) {
Perl::ToPerl6
=========
> my @aaa = qw ( a b c d e f g );
> for (@aaa) -> $c {
Blue_Tiger
========
> my @aaa = < a b c d e f g >;
> for @aaa <-> $c {
For the example Perl 5 input I like the Blue_Tiger translation, except
I haven't so far found an description of the '<->' operator. Why
would Blue_Tiger prefer it to the '->' operator which I've seen in all
the examples I can remember seeing?
Thanks.
Cheers!
-Tom
