David Cantrell writes:
> A few days ago I briefly discussed with Nicholas Clark (current perl 5.8
> pumpking) about making perl5 code forward-compatible with perl6. A
> quick look through the mailing list archives didn't turn up anything
> obvious, and I don't recall any mechanism being presented in any of the
> Apocalypses, so ...
Well, there is one, as far as I understand it. Your "use perl5;" is
spelled "package". That is, perl will assume Perl 6 unless it sees
"package SomethingOrOther;" (since Perl 6 calls them "module"s). So, to
force Perl 5 interpretation, use:
package main;
Luke
