At 05:23 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
>On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:00:13PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:49:30PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > > We need to keep syntactic compatibility, which means we need to keep the
> > > ability for perl6 to USE PERL5.
> >
> > I think you're in violent agreement here. This has been declared a
> > goal of Perl 6 from almost day one.
>
>Ok, fair enough, but until just a little bit ago I was hearing stuff different
>from Dan. That has been changed, apparently recently, so I guess we are in
>violent agreement.
Yep. Dan *still* doesn't like the idea, and I really don't want to have to
deal with the extra code that's inevitably involved, the complexity in the
parser to correctly identify perl 5 or perl 6 code, or with the errors and
compatibility problems that'll crop up. I'd much rather we had a standalone
utility that plugged into perl 5 somehow and leave perl 5 completely out of
the perl 6 core. (Heck, out of the perl 6 distribution) Given what Larry's
break^Wchanging, though, I don't think it's feasable. :(
Dan
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