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

Nathan Wiger <[email protected]> writes:
>* 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)

On that topic - it may make sense to have a 

use warnings 'Perl6';

option in (say) perl5.8 which would allow folk to find typeglobs etc,
and adjust code in advance.

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