Brent --
I think I missed your point. I'll refer to your two code chunks as
(a) and (b). Maybe you are getting at a finer point, though...
What you've said in (a) is pretty much what I hinted about Inline::Perl6
in my message. If you pass it to a Perl 6 interpreter, then it will
probably use that hint to shift into Perl 5 mode (which, fortunately,
is a perfectly respectable thing for a Perl 6 interpreter to do) kind
of as if what you had sent it was really:
#!/usr/bin/perl6
use syntax 'perl5';
...
Any Perl 5 code above your 'use 5' statement that isn't also legal
Perl 6 code, though, would cause the compiler to complain.
I don't see how what you've said in (b) is different from what I've
said, outside the "use 6" which I think shouldn't exist, since
it means nothing to Perl 5 (there is no Perl 5, version 6) and
means nothing to Perl 6 (which has as its lowest version number...
6). So, the code you wrote is Perl 6 with a redundant "use 6"
in it, otherwise in the same vein as what I wrote. If you pass it
to a Perl 5 interpreter, it will choke. If you pass it to a Perl 6
interpreter, life is peachy keen. If you pass it to a Python
interpreter, you get what you deserve :) You have used "use syntax"
which falls under the category of "# or whatever" in my message.
Regards,
-- Gregor
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 18:51, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
>
> > #!/usr/bin/perl6
> >
> > ... # Perl 6 stuff here
> >
> > use 5; # or, whatever
> >
> > # Perl 5 stuff here
> >
> > no 5; # or, whatever
> >
> > # More Perl 6 stuff here
> >
> > use python; # you get the idea
>
> Why conflate the two at all? Perl 5 has two separate syntaxes for
> forcing a version and embedding code in a different language:
>
> use 5; # forces Perl < 6
> perl_five_code();
> use Inline::Perl6 q{ # Ah, the wonders of ponie...
> perl_six_code();
> };
> use Inline::Python q{
> python_code()
> };
>
> So why not do the same (albeit in a much slicker way) for Perl 6?
>
> use 6; # forces Perl 6+
> perl_six_code();
>
> {
> use syntax 'perl5'; # switches to Perl 5 syntax
> perl_five_code();
> }
>
> {
> use syntax 'python';
> python_code()
> } #With the indentation, I think this closes both the Perl and
> # the Python block...
--
Gregor Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Focus Research, Inc. http://www.focusresearch.com/
