On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:50:36AM -0700, yary wrote:
: Back to the question of "cool things about perl6"- after showing some
: of the extended syntax and its expressiveness, put up a slide saying
: "it's still Perl".
:
: Show that much of the basics still work:
: > my @x=('a' .. 'z'); @x[3,4]=qw(DeeDee Ramone);
: say @x.splice(2,4).join(',')
: c,DeeDee,Ramone,f
That qw is not a good example of what still works, since it is supposed
to be interpreted as a qw subroutine (rakudo bug). I recommend square
brackets instead.
Larry
