On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Steffen Mueller wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:00:55AM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > >> And I'm definitely going to try any future PerlGolf challenges also > >> in perl6. > > > > Is it considered better if perl6 use more characters than perl5? (ie > > implying probably less line noise) > > or less (getting your job done more tersely?) > > >From the bit of Perl6 information I've gathered from the Apocalypses, the > Exegesises (is that really the plural? Sounds horrible.), and my
Exegeses (like parentheses) > perl6-language reading, I'd say Perl6 is not only going to be a bit more > verbose (unless you use the dreaded "use Perl5;" pragma ;) ), but it'll also > be a Good Thing. No, not nessecarily. If you do a line-by-line translation, yes. But the fact is, Perl 6 will be able to do more in a single line (cleanly) than Perl 5. For instance, hyper-operators. So, Perl 6 will contain less line-noise and more whitespace than Perl 5, but code will end up being shorter, too. You can see that in Exegesis 4 (or 3, not sure), where Damian takes Perl5ish Perl6 code, and then writes it back out in idiomatic Perl 6. You see how much shorter it becomes. Luke
