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ES6 is an acceptable perl. 1. It has peg grammar 2. Reasonably Unicode friendly 3. Transpilers did what Parrot VM was supposed to do 4. OOP is flexible enou
by foobar_ 7y ago
ES6 is an acceptable perl.
1. It has peg grammar
2. Reasonably Unicode friendly
3. Transpilers did what Parrot VM was supposed to do
4. OOP is flexible enough
5. Optional type checking and FP libraries
6. No macros and neither does Perl 6
- b2gills 7y agoRakudo does have macros. They weren't good enough to be enshrined in the Perl6 language itself. So there is a project named 007 for exploring how macros should work in Perl6.