Larry Wall has written Apocalypse 2, his second article describing what Perl 6 will be like. In this piece, he covers what is related to Chapter 2 of the Camel book, which is mostly stuff about data and variables. Read and enjoy.
How about *least* favorite?
Mark Thomas on 2001-05-11T17:33:19
My vote for least favorite would be:
=begin END.
Woohoo! A workaround for a workaround that didn't completely work around the problem in the first place.
Re:How about *least* favorite?
pudge on 2001-05-14T17:43:55
I vote for Unicode because I don't like any of the other "features."
:-)
Re:How about *least* favorite?
clintp on 2001-05-20T02:04:55
Unicode isn't a feature, it's a scourge.
Re:How about *least* favorite?
belg4mit on 2001-06-01T18:15:57
Here Here!!
Seeing as Perl6 is supposed customizable/
dialectable.
I hope we can patch together a Perl5 module.
I can do without a lot of these "features",
and happen to like my Perl just the way it is, thanks.
Am I just weird?
jdavidb on 2001-06-06T17:52:36
The most popular feature is changing $@*% to be part of the variable name. That's the one I don't like.
Oh, well. If you guys all like it that much, it must be good.
Re:Am I just weird?
pecus on 2001-07-20T10:27:46
Well that would also be my least favorite.. afterall from all the languages that i know, identiying the variable type by its beginning character has been a major help..
but, it's possible we're getting it wrong...
