Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > It used to be, but that was not according to spec. FROGGS++ implemented > the lax mode, which is enabled by default in one-liners. Perhaps TimToady > wants to invoke rule #2 on this. > > Personally, I use an alias that has ‘-M strict

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-26 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 26 Aug 2015, at 12:18, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:26:23 +0200, Moritz Lenz > wrote: > >> I could continue with other Perl 5 deficiencies (no strict by default, > > Using strict *STILL* is not enabled by default for perl6 > one-liners either: It used to be, but that

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-26 Thread Marc Chantreux
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:18:46PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > $ perl6 -e'my Int $this = 1; $thıs++; say $this;' > 1 > $ perl6 -Mstrict -e'my Int $this = 1; $thıs++; say $this;' > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > Variable '$thıs' is not declared. Did you mean '$this'? > at -e:1 > -->

Formatting in Pod declarator blocks

2015-08-26 Thread Philip Hazelden
Synopsis 26 says of declarator blocks: > A declarator can have multiple leading and/or trailing Pod comments, in which case they are concatenated with an intermediate newline when their object's .WHY return value is stringified But the current

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:26:23 +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > I could continue with other Perl 5 deficiencies (no strict by default, Using strict *STILL* is not enabled by default for perl6 one-liners either: $ perl6 -e'my Int $this = 1; $thıs++; say $this;' 1 $ perl6 -Mstrict -e'my Int $this = 1; $

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.08.2015 14:12, 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

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-26 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, On 11.08.2015 14:12, 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 using the latest Perl