Perhaps my favorite parts of Perl 6 are subroutine signatures and getting rid of "my $self = shift;".
These features available now in Perl 5, without source filters, using Method::Signatures.
Sure, it's labeled as "ALPHA" involves some dark magic to make it work, but it's there to play with. And if it can be hacked up as a module, surely it would be feasible to add to Perl 5.12....
Heck, if it works well in v8 and v10, why worry about doing anything special in v12? Just wait until you're comfortable with its reliability and start making it a prereq. The future of the core is shinkage, not growth!
Re:why 5.12?
markjugg on 2008-09-23T01:19:00
I'd like it to be less of a black art tool. I'd like to be able to use the debugger with it. I'd like to know that it's future compatible and that "toke.c" won't evolve in a way that will break it.
