Now that 5.10 is out, rjbs and I have fired off a bunch of proposals for 5.12 features to p5p. These are things which should be dead obvious, at least on the surface.
rjbs proposed...
Was I called as a method? A caller() extension so a routine can tell if it was called as a method or not.
Lexical named subroutines:
my sub foo {...} to take over from my $foo = sub { ... };. Yes please, I'll take 10.sub foo ($this, $that) { ... } Oh god please can we? The idea is to start simple and obvious and build out from there. Discussion is positive and lively. There's lots of small, but very important, details to work out.method foo { return $self->{foo} } No more my $self = shift;!
Sounds good. I noticed that 5.10.0 seems to make more sweeping changes than the last several releases, and your proposals would carry that even further, I think.
Maybe Perl 5 will approach Perl 6 asymptotically.
Re:Perl 5 is innovative again
dagolden on 2008-01-11T19:36:03
That was my thought. Perl 5 should backport as much syntax and semantics as can be.
-- dagolden