On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:09, Nikola Janceski wrote: > I just found out that Perl 6 is going to be mainly OO (object oriented for > you beginners). > Can someone give me a direct URL of where I can find what is really going to > happen? I do lots of Perl programming and I really want to determine if this > is going to be a good thing, or bad. > > I really don't mean to take time away from you folks (ie. Japhy, Jenda, > etc.). > > > Nikola Janceski > > Clever talk and a pretentious manner are seldom found in the Good. > -- Confucius > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------- > The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's > own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit > Systems Inc.
First let me clear up some confusion: Perl 6 will still be Perl. You will be able to do everything you used to be able to do in Perl 5 with some small caveats: variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say @array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is changing from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of operator '->' is changing to '.', and various other small things. Also note that there WILL be a Perl5->Perl6 converter. perl.com has several good articles on Perl 6 under the names Apocalypse N and Exegesis N. Apocalypse N articles are written by Larry Wall (the creator of Perl) and cover new features and changes being made to old features. Exegesis N articles are written by Damian Conway (noted Perl expert and community slave) and cover practical uses of the features covered in the Apocalypse where Ns are the same (example: Apocalypse 1 and Exegesis 1 cover the same material). I am currently reading Exegesis 4 and am horrified and excited. -- Today is Pungenday the 20th day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 All Hail Discordia! Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
