On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:41:21 -0400, David H. Adler d...@pobox.com
wrote:
The reason for my request is to help with a better introduction in my
modest draft tutorial on converting Perl 5 to Perl 6 code at the Perl
Monastery. I am comfortable with the example code I use there (which is
not
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:00 AM, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:41:21 -0400, David H. Adler d...@pobox.com
...
*THE* killer feature that will be seen by all beginning perl6
programmers is its awesome error messages. It is a shame that
...
Thanks!
-Tom
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com wrote:
One thing that was not mentioned already is using Rat instead of
standard floating point number. It prevents many silly mistakes
especially when counting money.
Thanks, Kamil.
-Tom
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick uberm...@gmail.com wrote:
Built-in facilities for the language to parse, transform and extend
...
Thanks, Andrew.
-Tom
One thing that was not mentioned already is using Rat instead of
standard floating point number. It prevents many silly mistakes
especially when counting money.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they
all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value
to ordinary Perl 5 users. If one wants to sell long-time Perl 5 users
(already