Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-27 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:35:27AM -0400, yary wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Marc Chantreux wrote: > >complete different usage but it would be nice to have a flag for "use > >strict" both in perl5 and 6 > > /me nominates -W as "a bigger -w" .. oh wait, -W already exists as a > depreci

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-27 Thread yary
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Marc Chantreux wrote: >complete different usage but it would be nice to have a flag for "use >strict" both in perl5 and 6 /me nominates -W as "a bigger -w" .. oh wait, -W already exists as a depreciated-in-my-view perl5 flag. In that case, I also like "-E" as "ru

Re: [PSA] panda doesn't precompile modules anymore

2015-08-27 Thread Parrot Raiser
Single-purpose tools that can be used in a pipeline; what a concept! :-)* On 8/27/15, Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote: > This will probably impact quite a few people, so I thought I'll explain > myself here :) > > As of now, panda will not precompile Perl 6 code anymore. This will > introduce unexpected s

[PSA] panda doesn't precompile modules anymore

2015-08-27 Thread Tadeusz Sośnierz
This will probably impact quite a few people, so I thought I'll explain myself here :) As of now, panda will not precompile Perl 6 code anymore. This will introduce unexpected slowness, for instance HTTP::UserAgent now takes 5.4 seconds to load instead of 0.8 on my machine. It may now sound

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-27 Thread Marc Chantreux
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:00:09PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > It used to be, but that was not according to spec. FROGGS++ implemented > > the lax mode, which is enabled by default in one-liners. Perhaps TimToady > > wants to invoke rule #2 on this. > > Personally, I use an alias that has ‘