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At 10:52 AM 7/24/00 -0700, Gary Richardson wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Your understanding is incomplete. Perl 6 may well have incompatible
> changes
> > made to it, and some stuff is almost inevitably going away. (I'd bet
> > everything marked "deprecated" since the first alphas of 5.000 would get
> > the chop) What, of course, is still up in the air, since Larry's not
> > actually had *time* to do anything on it yet...
>
>I suppose saying that 'not changing the language' was wrong, but perl6's
>focus is* to not be a language rewrite, but an implementation rewrite.
>Stuff that was marked as deprecated has essentially already been removed
>from the language spec.
>
>* This sounds like I'm authoritve; I am not. I am just stating what I see.
It's a touch more open than that. Typeglobs, for example, may get tossed,
and it's possible that some of the other grotty bits will go too. I can't
picture Larry making things un-perlish, but its all up for grabs. (Hey, we
might get a case or switch statement, and if that's not a reasonably
significant language change...)
Dan
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