Re: Will Perl 6 be usable as a procedure language?

Peter Scott <Peter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:32 +0100, bugbear wrote:

Lars Eighner wrote:
Will perl 6 be usable as a procedure language?


They'll be hellish backwards compatibility issues
if it isn't!

Backwards compatibility with what?

Are you thinking that Perl 6 is intended to be backwards compatible with
Perl 5? It isn't, and it won't be. The runtime will be able to use Perl
5 modules, but that's a different story.

What is the difference between that, and being backwards compatible?

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