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Some years ago, Damien Conway spoke about changing sigils going away in Perl 6... whenever that comes out... perhaps 2030.
by mikecaron 15y ago
Some years ago, Damien Conway spoke about changing sigils going away in Perl 6... whenever that comes out... perhaps 2030.
- cygx 15y agoPerl6 already is out - there's a Tetris-implementation using GTK for Niecza, a Perl6 implementation on Mono/.NET. The implementations are not feature-complete, but if that's your sole criterion, then neither C nor C++ are out yet. The most feature-complete implementation - Rakudo on Parrot - is not production-ready, though, and currently somewhat stalled due to low bus factor: The object-system refactor (which made things like natively-typed attributes possible) introduced a lot of regressions, and the regex engine in particular is not yet fixed as the lead-developer was hit by real-life issues.
- chromatic 15y agoThe implementations are not feature-complete, but if that's your sole criterion, then neither C nor C++ are out yet. That's a little disingenuous. I'm a Perl fan and I'd like to use Perl 6 practically, but the fact that someone wrote a Tetris clone in one of multiple incomplete implementations of Perl 6 doesn't mean that Perl 6 is actually useful for much.
- cygx 15y agoThat's a little disingenuous. Not really. It just shows that feature-completeness may be a good metric when comparing implementations of the same language, but not so much when comparing them to implementations of a different language. the fact that someone wrote a Tetris clone in one of multiple incomplete implementations of Perl 6 doesn't mean that Perl 6 is actually useful for much The fact that there's a Tetris-clone in Perl6 indeed doesn't mean much. However, the fact that it uses GTK is an example of CLR interop, which opens up a whole new level of practical applicability.