Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

* Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> [05/10/2001 14:18]:
> >
> >Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser.  The
> >details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen.
> 
> Damn straight. One way or another, perl 6 will eat perl 5 code close to 
> painlessly. (Typeglobs, perhaps, aside)

Cool. Dan, is this a fundamental change from the philosophy that you
expoused earlier? Last time I brought this up it seemed you were 
against having perl6 eat perl5 code. I'm thinking specifically of:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06258.html

I'm NOT trying to put you on the spot :-), just wondering if the
philosophy has changed...

-Nate