Perl 5.24 is now 100% forwards compatible with Perl 6. The Perl community is agreed that Perl 6 is, in fact, a completely different language than Perl 5. Unlike Python 3 which differs only in a few minor (but important) ways from Python 2, Perl 6 is a significant break from the past, enough to justify calling it a different language and not just a backwards- incompatible version change. And yet Perl 5 now can run Perl 6 scripts.
Well, kinda sorta. I'm not really pulling your leg. But Perl has a feature that if you tell it to run a file with a hashbang line, it will call the given executable to run that file. That's now been improved to recognise Perl6 as an external executable, instead of trying to run it as Perl 5 code. https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#Hashbang-redirection-to-Perl-6 Should Python do something similar? At least for Python 2/3 code? -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
