Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Nicolas George wrote: 
> Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21):
> >     $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; if
> > ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘
> 
> I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the
> symmetrical ASCII one; then I noticed the single quotes, and I know the
> shell does not.
> 
> > Raku’s regular expression grammar is much better than Perl’s. Larry
> > was very picky about that.
> 
> This is a good occasion to ask:
> 
> As a long-time Perl 5 programmer, I often wonder whether learning Raku
> would be worth it. Does it take a lot of time or is it close enough to
> be easy? What are the benefit? Will I find a trove of package already
> implementing network protocols and standard algorithms, or be able to
> run Perl 5 packages somehow? And so on.
> 
> Do you know the answer to these questions? Or a place where somebody
> wrote them?


The most important bit to know is that Raku is not Perl, it is
an incompatible descendant of Perl, which is why:

* Raku stopped being called Perl 6
* the next major version of Perl will be Perl 7.

-dsr-