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I think Perl 5 (despite the much bigger Perl 6 fork) used a language pragma for unicode. When Java introduced generics, they had to use type erasure. It does s
by theonemind 6y ago
I think Perl 5 (despite the much bigger Perl 6 fork) used a language pragma for unicode. When Java introduced generics, they had to use type erasure.
It does seem like if you put in some effort and do some decidedly unaesthetic things, you can bolt on and backport a lot. No developer dreams of maintaining dirty hacks at scale, though.
- lizmat 6y agoPlease note that Perl 6 did not start out as a fork, but over the years effectively was considered to be one. Which is why it changed its name to Raku (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).