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Yeah, that's a huge issue with Perl 6. The language is nowhere near backwards-compatible with Perl 5, and it can't be easily retrofitted to be. So perl 6 is b
by einhverfr 13y ago
Yeah, that's a huge issue with Perl 6. The language is nowhere near backwards-compatible with Perl 5, and it can't be easily retrofitted to be. So perl 6 is basically becoming its own language in parallel rather than the successor as was originally planned.
It will be interesting to see if PHP goes that route or not.
- 0x0 13y agoPHP already kinda did that once, for the PHP6 effort, which was abandoned after many years of being in development. So it's probably not the way to go.