>> >> Can someone point me to a how to that will show me the >> basic template for running a perl 6 program in Linux. >>
The most important thing is to ensure that perl 6 is normally executable, i.e. in a directory in $PATH. >> do I need to run perl6 through a compiler or does it compile on the fly like >> perl 5? >> The thing that will probably help you most in learning p6 is the REPL - Read, Evaluate, Print Loop. If you simply execute perl6 without arguments: myprompt$ perl6 To exit type 'exit' or '^D' > it will present with a message and a > prompt. Any perl 6 statement typed there will be evaluated and return a result. Normal up- and down-arrow and command-line editing rules apply, including recalling previous commands. When you're tired of that, CTL-D or exit will let you do something else. (I suspect people will write their scripts with a REPL window open to test any concepts they might not grok completely, rather than waiting for a test run to fail.)
