[Wellington-pm] Things I Don't Use in Perl

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Thu Sep 8 18:42:24 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:01 +1200, Bas A.Schulte wrote:
> I'm not sure what to think of a Perl6::* namespace in perl5 code:

To quote Damian:

  "their purpose is to explore and prototype future core 
   language features"

Or to put it another way ... someone suggests feature X for Perl 6.  A
proof-of-concept implementation might then be written using Perl 5 and
then people can try it and see if it's really useful.

Cheers
Grant



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