Exegesis 6 (Perl 6 Subroutines) Released

chromatic writes "Perl.com has just published Damian Conway's Exegesis 6 which gives practical examples demonstrating how to use the new subroutine and method semantics in Perl 6. This is the companion to Larry Wall's Apocalypse 6 which discussed the changes planned for subroutines in Perl 6."

Comments

Re:For those who don't know....

[absolut_kurant]

Thank God Damian isn't working on the Apocalypses...

Perl floats *all* boats

[flicken]

That's the point of Perl. If you don't want to use the verbosity of:

sub Fahrenheit_to_Kelvin (Num $temp is rw) {

You don't have to! You could just as well use:

sub f2k ($temp) {

Perl will allow either. It's your choice. You can do the quick one-off-hack-it-up-at-3am-after-two-large-pots-of- coffee, and you can have a large programming project that must be maintained for years to come.

You have the choice. Pick whichever method fits the task at hand.

Re:Release on the long road to nowhere

[keesh]

This guy is not trolling

Erm, yes I was...

There's more than one way to do it?

[MoxFulder]

Perhaps the Perl motto should be changed from TMTOWTDI to TAMODVPCWDSSAAMSTWDI:

"There's a multitude of different visually pleasing constructions with deceptively subtle syntax and auto-magical semantics that will do it."

Okay, I love Perl 5... Perl 6 looks really cool but overwhelming. I'm glad they're adding the options for stricter type-checking and such, but remembering the syntactic shortcuts is gonna be even harder. I don't even want to know what the parser code looks like...