Content of the Perl6 talk

Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Mon Jul 31 00:46:08 EDT 2000


On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> Probably much more useful, if possible, would be to modularize some
> key functionality that the languages have in common.  The only example
> I can think of off hand would be a regexp engine.  It's kind of silly
> that all three languages would support the same syntax and largely the
> same features and functionality with entirely different code bases.

Sadly, even that's not really true. You can ask Andrew about the wonderful
fun he had trying to pry Perl's regexp engine from the clutch of
interdependancies. Perl's regexps are part of the language, and the
language is part of them (e.g., /e).

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