On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:57, Rob Kinyon wrote: > Well, for one thing, you can't write OO code in P5.
I'll play your semantic game if you play my what-if game. I have a fair bit of Perl 5 code. Ponie works. I want to migrate my Perl 5 code to Perl 6 slowly. Everything new is Perl 6 code. When I have a chance, I migrate classes and modules from Perl 5 to Perl 6 code. I have a handful of Perl 5 classes. One day, I need to subclass one of them. Per my goal, I do so in Perl 6. Of course, it has to interoperate with the Perl 5 in the system, per that pesky Liskov rule. If I can specify an alternate internal representation for the object corresponding to the appropriate internal representation for the Perl 5 class I'm extending, great! If not, your programming language sucks and doesn't do what the box leads me to believe that it should do -- especially if the answer is "Well you shouldn't want to do that." -- c PS - You can't write procedural code in Haskell. You can't write functional code in C. You can't write readable code in Ada. Okay, I think that's out of my system now.
