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by Bruce Weirdan on
Regarding "Comparison to other languages" Speaking of that section, there's one minor nitpick. Currently it says Perl 6 was renamed to Racket, but it was actually renamed to Raku. Racket is an unrelated, Lisp-like language. -- Best regards …
by AllenJB on
… used to be king for doing a lot of scripting and anything remotely complex, then they went off on their Perl 6 voyage and now I don't think anyone knows what's going on with it or has the …
by Stanislav Malyshev on
… these is true for |>-$$ thing - it does not have any matches in any languages I can think of (maybe Perl 6 has something like that because what doesn't it have?), it captures only one particular case and it …
by Rowan Collins on
… and more flexible. It's a shame that that's so verbose. It would be amazing to have something like Perl6's "Junctions": https://perlgeek.de/blog-en.cgi/perl-5-to-6/08-junctions.html $foo instanceof any(Foo …
by christopher jones on
… or just plain won't do something that they'll need, and PHP 7 will risk becoming this decade's Perl 6: the cautionary tale for what happens when you burn all the boats. I agree with this idea principle …
by Xinchen Hui on
… 4) " a17" string(4) " a18" string(4) " a19" string(4) " a20" It sounds good to have string decrements. 2013/7/19 Peter Lind peter.e.lind@gmail.com Interesting to note that although Perl 6 is apparently capable of decremen
by james.butler@edigitalresearch.com on
The only problem I can see with this is... do we wait for PHP6 as it seems to be becoming a bit of a Perl 6 (sorry for bringing this up)? I completely agree with it should only happen with …
by Jeff Griffiths on
… thread grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Perl 6 approaches 1." JG -1 for 5.x +1 for 6.0 Otherwise the Perl 6 guys will starting making their own jokes about being released before PHP 6. --Wez …
by Cristian Rodriguez on
2007/5/17, Steph Fox steph@zend.com: You still need to beat the Perl 6 release folks ;) What PHP6 needs is not repeating the same old mistakes over and over again : It should be developed without pressure, with quality …
by Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg on
Radically change all the operator syntaxes. Oh wait, that's Perl 6.0, sorry. In the same spirit, on my PHP 7.0 wishlist are Unicode operators. :) -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly …
by Sebastian Nohn on
… call it "6.0". "5.2" or "5.5" would be OK. Unicode support is cool but calling a release "6.0" just because of that looks a litte bit like "hey perl, we reached the 6.0 before you …
by Marcus Boerger on
Hello George, Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 9:48:22 PM, you wrote: I think Unicode warrants a major version. I'd go with PHP 6 and aim to release it before Perl 6 :) From judging by a Perl 6 talk …
by Andi Gutmans on
… 27 -0700 andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) wrote: I think Unicode warrants a major version. I'd go with PHP 6 and aim to release it before Perl 6 :) From judging by a Perl 6 talk we attended at OSCON …
by Stanislav Malyshev on
… JT>>scripting > languages, such as Python and Perl. BTW, I don't remember anything useful done with operator overloading on Perl. I must say I wrote a lot of Perl when nothing like Perl 6 existed, so I may be …
by Christian Schneider on
… to look up. It's easily confused with $a ? $b : $c; It's ugly (-:C I'd even prefer the Perl 6 err operator over it which is '//' or 'err' (low precedence) but then // is already the C++-style comment …
by Christian Schneider on
… default'); that looks too perlish. Be happy with what we came up with now. That doesn't look perlish, it is Perl. Perl 6 actually (-:C But now that I thought of isset() I have no desire for an operator
by Marco Tabini on
… other programming languages can quickly recognize and get used to. Creating confusing alternate syntaxes will bring us ever closer to Perl 6 where there are dozens of way to do the same thing. The end results in a confusing and …
by Ford on
… other programming languages can quickly recognize and get used to. Creating confusing alternate syntaxes will bring us ever closer to Perl 6 where there are dozens of way to do the same thing. The end results in a confusing and …
by Rasmus Lerdorf on
… other programming languages can quickly recognize and get used to. Creating confusing alternate syntaxes will bring us ever closer to Perl 6 where there are dozens of way to do the same thing. The end results in a confusing and …
by Ilia Alshanetsky on
… other programming languages can quickly recognize and get used to. Creating confusing alternate syntaxes will bring us ever closer to Perl 6 where there are dozens of way to do the same thing. The end results in a confusing and …