perl 6

Whats the story on perl 6? I heard they are developing it?

are they making it for use with webdesign ?

or just like perl 5 with more functions?


greets

rayman

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Hey I am not even finished with Perl 1.00

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Where can I test drive this new and improved code ?



I was just playing with one of those silly little perl lines people put after their name on a news group.

so:

s/(\d{2})/chr($1)/ge + print if $_ = '8284703280698276687967';

# or
$_ = '8284703280698276687967';
$_ =~s/(\d{2})/chr($1)/ge;
print $_ ;

Not enough brain cells left to comprehend why

It due to be released very soon. Some good articles on it can be found here:
Perl Features

cheers,

Mickalo

And there is a simple perl5 module that will allow you to write some very beta perl 6 code (it then converts to perl 5 code for processing).

This module only covers up to what my Walls has covered in his articles about perl 6, so it is by no means even close to being something you should be writing production scripts with.

BTW, perl 6 is jumping way to fast IMO. It's going to break 99% of existing perl 5 scripts, and that is just not acceptable. For those of you that havn't read anything about it, they're totally redoing everything. It might as well be a totally different language. I don't know if perl6 is really what people want these days. We (or at least I) want a faster running and faster compiling version of perl5 with maybe a few more features added to make it more web-friendly (even though it is very much so right now)