On 2019-12-13 11:14, Vadim Belman wrote:
Totally wrong. `use v6` specified Raku (formerly Perl6) code and initially
thought to be used to distinct perl5 code from perl6. For now I consider it
mostly as a decoration except for test files where .t extension is shared
between languages.
With
On 2019-12-13 11:07, Mark Senn wrote:
If I am not mistaken, `use v6` is only useful if you have more than
one version of Perl6/Raku loaded on your system. I could be wrong
though.
I think the main purpose is so that if somebody tries to run a Raku
program with Perl 5 they will get an error
Totally wrong. `use v6` specified Raku (formerly Perl6) code and initially
thought to be used to distinct perl5 code from perl6. For now I consider it
mostly as a decoration except for test files where .t extension is shared
between languages.
With regard to multiversioning, rakudo
On 2019-12-13 01:08, MT wrote:
In the light of renaming to Raku I was wondering if the statement 'use
v6.*' is still useful.
Hi MT,
If I am not mistaken, `use v6` is only useful if you have more than one
version of Perl6/Raku loaded on your system. I could be wrong though.
I personally
On 12/13/19 3:32 PM, Vadim Belman wrote:
Hello Marcel,
You make certain assumptions, then you make them something like facts and
proclaim things based on these. Please, don't!
Sorry that I did, apologies for that.
On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Brad Gilbert wrote:
> There should probably be a way to require a minimum version of the compiler.
>
> use rakudo v2019.07;
>
As I understand it, this would do something quite different from `use v6`,
which is probably your point(?). A single Raku compiler would strive
There should probably be a way to require a minimum version of the compiler.
use rakudo v2019.07;
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 3:14 AM MT wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In the light of renaming to Raku I was wondering if the statement 'use
> v6.*' is still useful.
>
> First there is no version 6 of Raku
Hello Marcel,
You make certain assumptions, then you make them something like facts and
proclaim things based on these. Please, don't!
Raku versioning is the same as it was for Perl6. Backward compatibility is the
primary concern of the language development.
Certain considerations about
