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Wasn’t Raku/Perl6 basically a ground-up reconception more than a building-on-top of existing Perl5?
by dragonwriter 2y ago
Wasn’t Raku/Perl6 basically a ground-up reconception more than a building-on-top of existing Perl5?
- mst 2y agoYes, though perl5 is also an incredibly bendable language syntax wise - you can add keywords and operators to the compiler via CPAN modules (our async/await syntax is provided simply by doing 'use Future::AsyncAwait' for example).