[kw-pm] Perl6 Update

[Daniel R. Allen]

Vote by acclaimation, I expect; since I haven't heard any dissenters
:)

I've wanted local packages before, so that sounds like a plus.
Thanks for keeping up with this Eric.
-Daniel

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, lloyd carr wrote:

> Offical? I don't recall a vote or anything ;-)
>
> Thanks Eric :-)
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Eric - fishbot wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:38:52 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Eric - fishbot <eric at uc.org>
> > To: K/W Perl Mongers <kw-pm at mail.pm.org>
> > Subject: [kw-pm] Perl6 Update
> >
> >
> > As the "official" Perl6 watcher for kw.pm -
> >
> > Last week four "new" Synopses were posted at
> > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/
> >
> > s10 => Packages
> > s11 => Modules
> > s12 => Objects
> > s13 => Overloading
> >
> > Which correspond to chapters 10..13 in the camel book.
> >
> > The synopses are both the "pocket guide" to Perl6, and the
> > specification.
> >
> > s11..s13 are taken from the enormous a12 document, split up
> > by topic.  s10 is a synopsis of an imaginary a10, and thus
> > is "new" material.
> >
> > Things I found interesting:
> >
> > s10: Packages
> > --------------------
> > Packages are no longer always relative to main::.  You can
> > do "our package Foo;" for a new subpackage that has a
> > lexically scoped alias.  Thus $Foo::bar and $Baz::Foo::bar
> > might be relative and fully qualified names for the same
> > variable.
> >
> > Also, you can have a "my package Foo;", just as you can have
> > a "my sub bar {}".
> >
> > s11: Modules
> > --------------------
> > Not sure I love the module versioning logic, but at base it
> > will default what I normally want.
> >
> > I do love the new export semantics, though.  I can
> > understand an argument against, in that what is exported is
> > no longer obvious and grouped at the top of a module.  But
> > if you have to open the source to use a module, there are
> > bigger problems anyway, I think.  perl6doc should have a
> > switch that shows the export tables for the module ;)
> >
> > s12: Objects
> > --------------------
> > Even in Synopsis form this is long.  But, it's -much- more
> > readable, and only an 8th of the length of the Apocalypse.
> >
> > s13: Overloading
> > --------------------
> > The multi is deep trait is quite interesting.  It causes
> > operator autogeneration like Perl5 overloading does, but the
> > autogeneration table is accessible to pragma and modules.
> >
> > I also thought that the use of the alias operator on
> > overloadable core operators was interesting.  It made me
> > think about the way symbol tables are going to handle multi
> > slots.  Glad that I don't have to make those decisions.
> >
> >
> > Anyway, if you (understandably) put of reading a12, now is
> > your chance to get the same information, in a palatable
> > form.
> >
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