On Jan 21, 2016, at 2:36 AM, Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 January 2016 at 01:40, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: >> On 2016-01-20 5:02 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> >>> or is it all by hand? >> >> >> If you mean a source code translator, I don't know of one right now but I >> wouldn't be surprised if one exists, that at least handles a common subset >> of Perl 5 code. I expect having one will be a priority if it isn't around >> now. > > There are at least two source code translators in progress: > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-ToPerl6/ > > https://github.com/Util/Blue_Tiger/ > > They probably help but I'd be surprised if they work particularly well > yet in producing code which runs straight off. I am the author of one of the translators (Blue Tiger), and I welcome feedback on which parts are missing that would (be|have been) useful to you; it will help me prioritize development. For automated translation, see http://docs.perl6.org/language/5to6-nutshell#Automated_Translation Blue Tiger (p526) and Perl-ToPerl6 (perlmogrify) are the most useable. Perlito's website is down. ( For manual translation, read all of the 5to6-* docs at the top of http://docs.perl6.org/language.html , or email me ). Below, I have a terminal log of installation and execution of both translators. $ cat >example.pl <<END #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my @aaa = qw( a b c d e f g ); for my $c (@aaa) { print "$c$c$c\n"; } END $ cpanm Perl::ToPerl6 $ perlmogrify example.pl $ cat example.pl.pl6 #!/usr/bin/env perl my @aaa = qw ( a b c d e f g ); for (@aaa) -> $c { "$c$c$c\n".print(); } $ git clone git://github.com/Util/Blue_Tiger.git $ cd Blue_Tiger $ bin/p526 ../example.pl my @aaa = < a b c d e f g >; for @aaa <-> $c { print "$c$c$c\n"; } -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util on IRC)
