Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Simon Cozens]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:39:55AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >To solve this versioning issue, is there a way Perl 6 compiler can just
> >figure out what's being fed?
> 
> Why? 

i) To make things easier for the programmer. (That's kinda the point of
Perl.)

ii) Because Larry said so, *and* declared how to do it:

   I hereby declare that a package declaration at the front of a file
   unambiguously indicates you are parsing Perl 5 code. If you want to
   write a Perl 6 module or class, it'll start with the keyword module or
   class. 

-- 
The sky already fell.  Now what?  -- Steven Wright