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Cool Things in Perl 6

From brian_d_foy, 5 months ago

I gave a short talk to Ruhr.pm about some of the things I'm lookin more

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Slide 1:Cool Things in Perl 6 brian d foy brian@stonehenge.com May 3, 2008

Slide 2:• 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

Slide 3: Caveats • Cribbed from the Synopses http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/ • Some of this might not work yet

Slide 4: 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?

Slide 5: In this talk • Junctions • New list techniques • Meta operators

Slide 6:Junctions

Slide 7:• A junction is a single value that is equivalent to multiple values • Useful with comparisons • Parallelizable • Short circui