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Mark J. Reed wrote: > Jonathan Lang wrote: > > Terminology issue: IIRC (and please correct me if I'm wrong), Perl 6 > > uses 'module' to refer to 'a perl 5-or-earlier module', and uses > > 'package' to refer to the perl 6-or-later equivalent. > > Other way around. "package" is Perl 5, because that's the P5 keyword, > and seeing a "package" declaration is an indicator to Perl6 that the > file it's processing is written in P5. In P6, there are both > "module"s and "class"es, but no "package"s other than those inherited > from P5 code.. Right. Thank you; I'm not sure how I got those flipped. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" LangThread Previous | Thread Next