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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by vgy7ujm on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:56AM (#16212850)
If this really had worked seamlessly it would be great. But that includes /usr/bin/perl working this way on every OS etc... with a clear&easy upgrade path for existing code.
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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by petre on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:58AM (#16214530)
Well Perl 5 needs a spec in order to be supported inside Perl 5. Otherwise which version do you support? 5.6? 5.10.1? 5.16?
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