Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-04-13 at 13:16:02, David Cantrell wrote:
Perl 6, we are promised, will try to run "legacy" code unchanged. How
will it spot such legacy code?
My understanding has been that perl6 will assume a program is Perl 5 unless
it sees a Perl 6 keyword such as 'module' or 'class'.
That could be problematic, because if Perl 6 sees something like:
my %myhash; %myhash{'foo'} = 'bar';
Is it going to think 'ahah, perl 6' or 'perl 5 with errors'?
It's going to think 'ahah', perl 5'. Because it doesn't contain any Perl 6 keyword (such as 'module' or 'class'), as Mark said.
=thom
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