Re: delimiters with more than one character?
David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 15:27:06 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> > William Michels wrote:
> > > I've slowly been learning the Raku programming language (AKA Perl6), and
> >
> > Please don't call it that. Perl 1-5 have a clear relationship, and that
> > relationship continues in Perl 7 and subsequent versions. Raku should
> > not be referred to as a Perl, even though it was for many years.
> >
> > Raku is a new lineage.
>
> Thank you, William. I would not have known what you were talking about
> without the AKA. Surely we're not obliged to write "the language
> formerly known as Perl6". IIUC the name Raku isn't yet a year old.
>
> I lost interest in Perl around the time of Perl4???5, so I had no idea
> that that's what became of Perl6. I remember it being talked about
> when I retired, and stopped reading the computing press. I guess
> Perl7 is at about the same stage, still over the horizon.
https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7
"Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but with different, saner, more
modern defaults. You won't have to enable most of the things
you are already doing because they are enabled for you. The
major version jump sets the boundary between how we have been
doing things and what we can do in the future."
-dsr-
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