Re: Backwards compatibility and release 1.0

[email protected] (Mark Overmeer)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language
Organization MARKOV Solutions
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* Elizabeth Mattijsen ([email protected]) [151015 10:43]:
> FWIW, I’m with FROGGS on this.
>   use variables :D;

In the first response to this message, Moritz spoke about
     use invocant :D;
 and use parameters :D;

Three different things?

> at the top of the scope of your code, and then you’re set.  I admit
> it feels a *little* like the “use strict” boilerplate of Perl 5.

It is.

> On the other hand, I think by just specifying a type *without* smiley,
> is already so much better than the situation in Perl 5 that the lacking
> strictness of :D will not be needed much to catch programming / garbage
> in type of errors anyway.

Much better, of course.  Programming languages are used by people
of different taste.  Some may find "much better" enough, other people
want more.
-- 
Regards,

               MarkOv

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