Re: perl 6 requirements

[Alan Burlison]

'Scuse me, but I'm a bit puzzled by this whole 'What is Perl' thing.  My
understanding of the rewrite was that it was primarily to provide a
cleaner implementation than the current 'worn out' one, and to remove
some of the more egregious features, e.g. the over-reliance on globs in
some places, move some functionality out of the core and into modules
etc.  I certainly didn't expect a wholesale language redesign to be on
the cards.  After all, I *like* the current language features (well,
mostly).  I *like* the punctuation characters (they tell me what sort of
thing I am looking at).  What other language allows such poetry as
"@{$hash}{@keys} = @values"?  I humbly submit that perl without the
perlisms is not perl.

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Alan Burlison
CARP - CAmpaign for Real Perl