On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Peter Keane wrote:
...Like spoken langauges, syntax in a programming language
influences what/how things might be expressed, even though you can
express the exact same facts in any language. Perl6 will, I think,
be one of those ultra-dynamic languages like Ruby
On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
This was a feature I was not aware of. Does this mean I will be able
to write Perl programs that use the Java-based Lucene indexer?
You probably know this, but you could do that now via SOLR, a
webservices-plus-more layer that sits above
We get an honest-to-god switch statement, finally. And better regexp
optimization. I too plan to convert relatively slowly, starting with
5.10for now and re-reading perldelta.
--joe
On Jan 21, 2008 8:00 AM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just what will I be able to do better
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I just got finished looking over some of the stuff related to Perl6,
and now my brain hurts. :-( Just what will I be able to do better
with this (completely) new version? Run faster? Jump higher? It might
be cheaper for me to buy a pair of Keds.
I suspect that for many/most cases for which Perl5 does the trick, Perl5
will continue to the the best tool (and support for Perl5 is expected to
continue for the long term).
Perl 6 borrows some ideas from languages like Ruby (which itself borrowed
much from Perl) and seems to me a more
