On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:28, Chas Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:09, Nikola Janceski wrote:
> > I just found out that Perl 6 is going to be mainly OO (object oriented for
> > you beginners).
> > Can someone give me a direct URL of where I can find what is really going to
> > happen? I do lots of Perl programming and I really want to determine if this
> > is going to be a good thing, or bad.
> >
> > I really don't mean to take time away from you folks (ie. Japhy, Jenda,
> > etc.).
> >
> >
> > Nikola Janceski
> >
> > Clever talk and a pretentious manner are seldom found in the Good.
> > -- Confucius
> >
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> First let me clear up some confusion: Perl 6 will still be Perl. You
> will be able to do everything you used to be able to do in Perl 5 with
> some small caveats: variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say
> @array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is changing
> from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of operator '->' is
Opps, that should be ' _ ' not ' - '. I can see some fun code errors in
the future for me:
/home/cowens>perl6 -e '
print "this is a string that is way to long for the line, " -
"so I continued it with the concat operator\n";
'
0/home/cowens>
> changing to '.', and various other small things. Also note that there
> WILL be a Perl5->Perl6 converter.
>
> perl.com has several good articles on Perl 6 under the names Apocalypse
> N and Exegesis N. Apocalypse N articles are written by Larry Wall (the
> creator of Perl) and cover new features and changes being made to old
> features. Exegesis N articles are written by Damian Conway (noted Perl
> expert and community slave) and cover practical uses of the features
> covered in the Apocalypse where Ns are the same (example: Apocalypse 1
> and Exegesis 1 cover the same material).
>
> I am currently reading Exegesis 4 and am horrified and excited.
>
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