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The problem with both is it's not the default. I shouldn't have to know some special syntax that makes my code safe (having to put $ in front or use `var` or `l

The problem with both is it's not the default. I shouldn't have to know some special syntax that makes my code safe (having to put $ in front or use `var` or `let`. It should be hard to mess up, not hard to not mess up. You can see the progression of perl from bad to tacked on workarounds. First "local" was added to manually copy values to some stack. Then "my" was added. But all the old problems are still there. Then there's all the massive mess of $foo vs %foo vs @foo vs &foo. That's super cryptic and leads to really hard to parse code (IMO obviously). And all the ridiculous cryptic globals https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=353259 https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=353259 No thank you

lizmat 8y ago
> The problem with both is it's not the default. In Perl 6 declaration of any variable is obligatory by default. > Then there's all the massive mess of $foo vs %foo vs @foo vs &foo In Perl 6 that has all been made more systematic. Check out https://opensource.com/article/18/9/using-sigils-perl-6 https://opensource.com/article/18/9/using-sigils-perl-6 if you want to know how Perl 6 differs from Perl 5 in that respect, and how you can actually have sigilless variables in Perl 6. > And all the ridiculous cryptic globals Perl 6 basically only has `$_` (the topic), `$/` (the current match result) and `$!` (the last error) as "cryptic" lexicals. See https://docs.perl6.org/language/5to6-perlvar https://docs.perl6.org/language/5to6-perlvar for a list of Perl 5 variables -> Perl 6 functionality