Frank (>>), Moritz (>): >> My (admittedly >> limited) experience with rakudo leads me to believe that the one-liner >> or power-tool usage we've come to expect with perl5 may simply not >> exist in perl6. > > As Gabor points out, they haven't been implement yet, but they will be.
Not always in exactly the same ways as Perl 5, of course. Perl 6 looks quite different, even on the level of one-liners. Rest assured that some of us are scouring the corners of Perl 5 for typical one-liners, and trying to make sure that we have or will have a way to do similar one-liners in Perl 6. The one-liners don't always end up as short as in Perl 5, at least not after a literal translation. But they're often in the same ballpark. To me, it's an open question whether Perl 6 will be "competitive" as a one-liner language next to Perl 5. The real surprise in brevity and convenience comes when one lets go of the Perl 5 mindset and starts using the list, hyper and reduction operators for processing files. That's where Perl 6 shines, and Perl 5 has trouble keeping up. // Carl
