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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:00:13PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:49:30PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > > We need to keep syntactic compatibility, which means we need to keep the > > ability for perl6 to USE PERL5. > > I think you're in violent agreement here. This has been declared a > goal of Perl 6 from almost day one. Ok, fair enough, but until just a little bit ago I was hearing stuff different from Dan. That has been changed, apparently recently, so I guess we are in violent agreement. Although I would amend what he said to saying 'perl6 will eat perl 5 code close to painlessly as possible including typeglobs'. Typeglobs are a central part of a lot of CPAN's core modules; I don't think we could get away with abolishing them willy-nilly. EdThread Previous | Thread Next