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I (former Perl5 dev) am amazed that Perl6 actually has become "production-ready", after all those years. I find it quite good, and there are many interesting ne
by progman 10y ago
I (former Perl5 dev) am amazed that Perl6 actually has become "production-ready", after all those years. I find it quite good, and there are many interesting new concepts.
However, some things seem to be harder. For instance, it seems that I can't use the handy =~ s/.../ string replacements anymore but have to write grammar rules. Is that true?
If the old way is still possible (without Perl5 mode) then I cannot find it in Perl6's documentation.
Apart from that -- good work!
BTW: There is only one thing which I really dislike about Perl6, and that is that "nifty logo" :-) If you want to attract professional developers you should provide a professionally looking logo.
- zoffix222 10y agoThe s/// is still there. You just use ~~ smartmatch operator instead of =~ binding operator. I did get it to pop up in the docs search results: https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#index-entry-s%2F%2F%2F https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#index-entry-s%2F%2... I personally like the method version: .subst() and .subst-mutate()
- progman 10y agoWow, that was a quick answer. Thanks so much!