[Chicago-talk] Deprecated use of hash as a reference

[Andy Lester]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Chris Hamilton wrote:

>> He knows.  Perl 6 will use the @ for array references.
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but will changes such as this (array
> references, etc.) be backwards compatible as well, or is a lot of old code
> going to need to be rewritten if it is to be used in Perl 6?

Perl 6 is basically a new language as far as compatibility goes.

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