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Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 11, 2001 09:47
Subject:
Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!
Message ID:
200105111643.JAA07273@kiev.wall.org
Carl Johan Berglund writes:
: At 08.32 +0000 01-05-11, <nick@ing-simmons.net> wrote:
: >On that topic - it may make sense to have a
: >
: >use warnings 'Perl6';
: >
: >option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc,
: >and adjust code in advance.
: 
: Excellent idea!

Yes, though that does them little good unless they know what syntax to
migrate to, and that the syntax is supported in some fashion in 5.8.
(And if we start adding a bunch of Perl 6 keywords into Perl 5, there
are issues with that as well.)

Larry
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