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Cool Things in Perl 6

by _brian d _foy on May 04, 2008

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I gave a short talk to Ruhr.pm about some of the things I'm looking forward to using in Perl 6.

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Cool Things in Perl 6 brian d foy brian@stonehenge.com May 3, 2008

• I'm not a Perl 6 contributor • Not about the implementions • Not about new syntax for old things • About new features not in Perl 5 • Stuff that makes me want Perl 6

Caveats • Cribbed from the Synopses http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/ • Some of this might not work yet

Stuff I want • Most languages can do the job • But how much code does it take? • And where does that code live? • What's a primitive and what's built-in?

In this talk • Junctions • New list techniques • Meta operators

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