On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:41:21 -0400, "David H. Adler"
wrote:
> > The reason for my request is to help with a better introduction in my
> > modest draft tutorial on converting Perl 5 to Perl 6 code at the Perl
> > Monastery. I am comfortable with the example code I use there (which is
> > not curr
One thing that was not mentioned already is using Rat instead of
standard floating point number. It prevents many silly mistakes
especially when counting money.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
> I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they
> all se
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Built-in facilities for the language to parse, transform and extend
...
Thanks, Andrew.
-Tom
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:00 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:41:21 -0400, "David H. Adler"
...
> *THE* killer feature that will be seen by all beginning perl6
> programmers is its awesome error messages. It is a shame that
...
Thanks!
-Tom
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Kamil Kułaga wrote:
> One thing that was not mentioned already is using Rat instead of
> standard floating point number. It prevents many silly mistakes
> especially when counting money.
Thanks, Kamil.
-Tom
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they
all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value
to "ordinary" Perl 5 users. If one wants to sell long-time Perl 5 users
(already u
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Fagyal Csongor
wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
>>> I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they
>>> all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value
>>> to "ordinary" Perl