He was thinking "don't make perl 5 as incompatible with perl 4". Pass-by-reference objects make for a major change to the language's behavior; it and its consequences are a large part of why perl 6 is incompatible with perl 5.
On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:29 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 10/6/18 3:20 AM, JJ Merelo wrote: > > No, we don't have that in Perl 6, explicitly so. > > Hi JJ, > > Yippee !!!!! P6 is a wonderful clean up of P5. I hated > having to send arrays to subroutines as pointers. What > was Larry thinking !?!?!? ( He has redeemed himself 1000+ > times over with P6.) > > -T > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
