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

At 02:58 PM 5/10/2001 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>* 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...

Yes, it has. (And feel free to put me on the spot--If I say stupid and/or 
contradictory things in public I ought to be called on it... :)

					Dan

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