""Any infix operator can be replaced by itself in square brackets..." Later someone asked, "In a world of user-defined operators everywhere, how do you define precedence?" And Larry pulled out is tighter() and is looser(), noting that Perl 6 even has customizable precedence levels. "You can add an infinite number...""
It's been said that most of programming is about managing complexity. I'm unhappy with Perl in general because it makes it really easy to hide complexity. Perl 6 looks like it makes it even worse.
Yes, it looks like an amazingly powerful and sophisticated language, and an amazing and respectable accomplishment, but my gut feeling is I'll hate seeing some in production...
A nice feature is that imports honor scope, so you can use a module and import functions or operators within a scope and not worry about it causing problems elsewhere.
""Any infix operator can be replaced by itself in square brackets..." Later someone asked, "In a world of user-defined operators everywhere, how do you define precedence?" And Larry pulled out is tighter() and is looser(), noting that Perl 6 even has customizable precedence levels. "You can add an infinite number...""
It's been said that most of programming is about managing complexity. I'm unhappy with Perl in general because it makes it really easy to hide complexity. Perl 6 looks like it makes it even worse.
Yes, it looks like an amazingly powerful and sophisticated language, and an amazing and respectable accomplishment, but my gut feeling is I'll hate seeing some in production...