Strange Days
Wed, 09 Jul 2003
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Wow... I've become really excited about perl6... it's not nearly out yet, but from what I can tell, will make perl programming even more powerful, and actually a lot easier to use. I read half of "Perl6 Essentials", up to the Parrot internals part... so I have an idea how perl 6 will work, but I didn't want to mess with the actualy dev code yet.
I expect I'll eventually have to move MoLD into Perl6...
some improvements:
- Filehandles are now normal scalars.
- syntax for conditional checking has been broadened (lots more checking)
- many more contexts now... boolean, for one
- if statements now have Optional parentheses, unlike perl5 where they are mandatory.