Re: Backward Compatibility (was Re: List for Perl 6 syntax?)

[email protected] (Joshua N Pritikin)
Newsgroups perl.bootstrap
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:08:13PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Andy Wardley <[email protected]> wrote
> 
>    [ pre-ante-RFC on merging Scalar/Array/Hashe variables ]
> 
> My immediate reaction to this was "Interesting idea, but what about
> Perl 5 compatibility?".    Which lead to the question "To what extent
> is Perl 5 compatibility a constraint on Perl 6?".

B::Perl6 can rename variables willy-nilly.

Seriously.

Tim said that these kinds of changes are up-for-grabs.

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