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Exegesis 3 Released (Perl 6 Examples)
chromatic writes "On the heels of Larry's most recent revelation, the mad scientist of Perl (Damian Conway) has followed up with Exegesis 3. His article gives working Perl 6 code examples of Larry's design decisions." Lots of good stuff in here.
I do love the hell out of perl, but I sure hope I can "use English 'operators';" for things like the hyper-operators. 'course, maybe 'use English' is deprecated ... can't wait for 'use Chinese', imagine what perl would look like then...
I would much rather see "@diffs = @set1 ^- @set2" expressed as a list comprehension, say @diffs = (each $x - $y suchthat $x in @set1, $y in @set2); (assuming I have said "english operators" on, otherwise I would imagine at least the 'suchthat' operator would be some punctuation char). It's a bit contrived for something as simple as subtracting every member of a couple lists, but list comprehension is beautiful stuff when combined with lazy evaluation in languages like Haskell.
Oh, and Perl6 is going to have an 'in' operator, right?
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
I believe there is extensive remodelling called for by the current Perl6 gameplan, although I think this will further distance Perl 6 from Perl 5 programmers, and most likely some of them will simply move on to other languages which don't seem like such moving targets (although with Python claiming a signficant rewrite in the future, there may not be much of a safe harbor outside of yuck Java).