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Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> whispered : | Ummm, I must have missed the "have to know Unicode, have to to know OO, | have to know references" part in the Apoc2. Could you show it to me? Atoms- Unicode. If everything is Unicode, you're going to have to grok Unicode (at least tangentally) to be able to use perl. RFC 161- Everything becomes an object. Filehandles are more object oriented in Perl6, and the special variables .... So, *probably* if you are going to use filehandles, you'll have to grok OO. $#foo is gone. If you want the final subscript of an array, and [-1] isn't good enough, use @foo.end instead. There's *lots* of mention of OO in relatively common, normal things. RFC 009- That is, all variables may be thought of as references, not just scalars. The whole concept of $calar, @rray, and %ash are changing to become references. If you don't understand references, you won't be able to use variables. That pretty much seems to say to mee you must know OO and references. Unicode may be something more easily hidden under the rug. -sppThread Previous | Thread Next